Maths In Games

Guides in this topic

• # A junior gamer's maths notebook 1 guide A printable-style page idea for recording scores, times, coordinates, designs and discoveries.
• A Animal Crossing maths: bells and budgets 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to budget bells, compare prices and plan savings.
• A Animal Crossing maths: daily routines and time 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to read clocks, plan tasks and compare durations.
• A Animal Crossing maths: house design area 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to arrange rooms, rugs and furniture using area and symmetry.
• A Animal Crossing maths: island maps 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use grids, coordinates and landmarks to navigate.
• A Animal Crossing maths: museum collections 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to count, sort and classify fossils, fish and insects.
• A Animal Crossing maths: turnip price graphs 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to plot price changes as a gentle introduction to line graphs.
• A Animal Crossing vs Minecraft: calm building maths 1 guide Use designing, collecting and planning to teach area, budgets, patterns and data.
• # Can a video game level be too easy or too hard? 1 guide Use data, testing and averages to explore fair challenge design.
• # Games that secretly teach budgeting 1 guide Use pretend shops, coins, bells, studs and adult-approved spending examples.
• # Games that secretly teach data 1 guide Turn scores, collections and practice results into tables, charts and questions.
• # Games that secretly teach fractions 1 guide Use health bars, progress bars, stacks, pizza slices and levels to make fractions visible.
• # Games that secretly teach geometry 1 guide Spot shapes, symmetry, angles and coordinates in the games children already understand.
• x Games that secretly teach times tables 1 guide A roundup of child-friendly ways games reveal arrays, repeats, scores and multipliers.
• # How game economies teach money 1 guide Use coins, shops and upgrades to practise budgeting, saving, comparing prices and making change.
• # How game levels teach sequences 1 guide Explore levels, XP, unlocks and growing patterns as sequences.
• # How game maps teach coordinates 1 guide Use grids, mini-maps and treasure markers to introduce x and y coordinates.
• # How games secretly use maths 1 guide A lively overview of scores, levels, maps, coordinates, timing, probability, data and design in games children already understand.
• H How inventories teach grouping 1 guide Use stacks, item slots and collections to practise multiplication, division and place value.
• # How random is random in a game? 1 guide Introduce probability using spinners, dice and safe game examples.
• H How scores become graphs 1 guide Turn high scores and practice attempts into line graphs, bar charts and improvement stories.
• H How scores teach place value 1 guide Read, compare and round scores from games, sports and classroom challenges.
• H How timers teach time and decimals 1 guide Use countdowns, lap times and speed challenges to practise seconds, minutes and decimal notation.
• # How to make maths quests from any suitable game 1 guide Build mini quests around counting, measuring, timing, comparing and explaining.
• # How to turn game time into maths talk 1 guide Gentle parent and teacher prompts that add maths language without turning play into a worksheet.
• H How to turn screen time into maths talk 1 guide A parent-friendly guide to asking quick questions before, during or after a game.
• J Just Dance maths: beats and counting 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to count beats, bars and repeating movement patterns.
• J Just Dance maths: fractions of a routine 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to split a routine into halves, quarters and sections.
• J Just Dance maths: score graphs 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to record scores and chart progress over time.
• J Just Dance maths: symmetry in movement 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to spot mirror moves and left-right patterns.
• J Just Dance maths: tempo and time 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to compare fast and slow songs using beats per minute ideas.
• K Kirby maths: boss attempt data 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to record attempts and improvements without pressure.
• K Kirby maths: collectibles and totals 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to count stars, coins or items and compare totals.
• K Kirby maths: map routes 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to plan paths through levels with turns and distances.
• K Kirby maths: shape transformations 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to spot size, shape and transformation ideas in playful form.
• x LEGO game maths: arrays and multiplication 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use brick rows and columns for multiplication.
• # LEGO game maths: mission route maps 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to plan paths through levels using grids and directions.
• # LEGO game maths: scale and proportion 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to compare mini builds with larger models.
• # LEGO game maths: stud counting 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to count studs and compare totals in builds.
• # LEGO game maths: symmetry in models 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to build mirror-image ships, buildings and characters.
• M Mario Kart maths: data charts 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to record race results and make bar charts or line graphs.
• M Mario Kart maths: item probability 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to discuss chance language such as likely, unlikely and possible.
• x Mario Kart maths: lap times 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to subtract and compare lap times, best times and total race times.
• M Mario Kart maths: position and ranking 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use ordinal numbers, tables and race results.
• M Mario Kart maths: speed and distance 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to talk about faster, slower, shortest routes and safe comparisons.
• M Mario Kart maths: track geometry 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to spot curves, angles, loops and shortcuts on track maps.
• M Mario Kart vs Rocket League: speed, time and angles 1 guide Compare racing and car-football examples for time, speed, direction and aiming.
• # Maths words every junior gamer should know 1 guide Explain score, level, chance, speed, angle, grid, coordinate, average and strategy.
• M Minecraft vs LEGO: which has better array maths? 1 guide Compare digital blocks and physical bricks to show rows, columns, area and multiplication.
• P Pokemon maths: evolution patterns 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to spot sequences, conditions and classification patterns.
• P Pokemon maths: map coordinates 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use routes, towns and landmarks for map-reading challenges.
• P Pokemon maths: probability and catching 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to talk about chance without needing exact hidden formulas.
• P Pokemon maths: stats and comparison 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to compare HP, attack and speed using greater than and less than.
• P Pokemon maths: team balance 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use data and categories to build a balanced team.
• P Pokemon maths: type charts 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to read tables and compare strengths, weaknesses and categories.
• P Pokémon vs football tables: strategy maths for juniors 1 guide Compare stats, scores and tables to show how numbers help people make choices.
• R Roblox Studio vs Scratch: two ways to learn coordinates 1 guide Show how both tools use position, movement and number rules in different ways.
• R Rocket League maths: angles of reflection 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to bounce a ball off walls and compare angles visually.
• R Rocket League maths: coordinates on the pitch 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to divide the pitch into zones and locate positions.
• R Rocket League maths: score statistics 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to record shots, saves and goals in charts.
• R Rocket League maths: speed and time 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to estimate speed, distance and time in car-ball movement.
• R Rocket League maths: trajectory prediction 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to predict where a moving ball might go next.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: coins and percentages 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to track collected coins, total coins and completion rates.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: difficulty data 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to collect playtest attempts and improve fairness.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: grid level design 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to design levels on squared paper with coordinates and scale.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: jump distances 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to measure gaps, platform heights and safe routes.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: symmetry and themes 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to create balanced level layouts and mirror challenges.
• S Super Mario Maker maths: timing patterns 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to use beats, cycles and repeated obstacles.
• S Super Mario maths: boss battle data 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to record attempts and improvement over time.
• S Super Mario maths: coins and counting 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to count coins, compare totals and practise number bonds.
• S Super Mario maths: platform jumps 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to compare distance, height and timing in safe paper tasks.
• S Super Mario maths: power-up patterns 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to spot repeating and growing patterns in items.
• S Super Mario maths: world map paths 1 guide Use age-appropriate, adult-approved play examples to choose routes and count steps through levels.
• # Why coordinates are the secret language of games 1 guide Connect grids in games with maps, coding, geometry and treasure hunts.
• # Why game designers need maths 1 guide Explain how maths helps games feel fair, fun, balanced and exciting.
• # Why game shops are budgeting lessons 1 guide Use pretend currencies and real-life caution to explore price, value and saving.
• # Why grinding in games is repeated addition 1 guide Use repeated rewards and levels to explain repeated addition, multiplication and rate.
• W Why speedruns are maths stories 1 guide Use routes, split times and improvement charts to practise time, subtraction and averages.