Grades 3 - 5

TABLE OF CONTENTS ~

~ Puzzles and Brainteasers ~ Grade 3 Specific Resources

~ Fun Card and Board Games ~ Grade 4 Specific Resources

~ Math Skills Practice Websites ~ Grade 5 Specific Resources

~ Great Math-y Books

~ Great Math Apps (for Apple and Google)

Puzzles and Brain Teasers

Great puzzles involving mobiles, mystery grids, and Who Am I!

Challenging activities to complete and send in to Greg Tang for a prize!



KenKen Puzzles

Try the mixed operations puzzles (4 x 4 and 5 x 5) – kids love them!

Lots of variety

{Can be printed out}

Great for practicing mental math

Try the number/shape puzzles.

Printable puzzles from MathSphere (a UK website)

Fun Card and Board Games (must be purchased)

Math Skills Practice Websites

Online practice activities.

Try the apps for 9+

(some are fee-based but worth it!)

Choose by grade level, challenge level changes as students answer more problems correctly.

If you prefer a more traditional approach (or would like to use these in addition to the other cool stuff provided) to practicing some math skills and strategies, you can access some materials below:

Great variety of worksheets. Includes math facts practice.

Choose by grade level and math topic. Can be printed.

Choose by grade level and math topic

Choose by grade level and topic. Each worksheet includes an explanation on how to approach the problems (check out the patterns sheets)

Great Math-y Books

Great Math Apps (for Apple and Google Play)


Slice Fractions

Kids between 5 and 12 slice through ice and lava to clear the mammoth’s path, unraveling the mystery of fractions!

This award-winning, problem-solving game is an incredibly fun way to learn fractions. Thanks to the game’s research-proven effectiveness, kids get a head start at school while having fun with fundamental math concepts. Wow!





Grade Three Resources

What should a third grade student practice?

  • Know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers (i.e. 8 x 5 = 40)
  • Practice division facts within 100
  • Solve two-step word problems using all operations
  • Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using place value strategies
  • Represent fractions on a number line
  • Understand fraction equivalence and comparison
  • Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes
  • Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes
  • Practice area and perimeter of rectangles

Grade Four Resources

What should a fourth grade student practice?

  • Know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers (i.e. 8 x 5 = 40)
  • Know from memory division facts within 100
  • Use the four operations to solve word problems (add and subtract using the standard algorithm, place value models are great for multiplication and division)
  • Practice with factors and multiples
  • Make number and shape patterns from a given rule
  • Read, write and compare whole numbers using place value understanding
  • Relate fractions by putting them in order
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Multiply fractions by whole numbers (i.e. 3 x ½)
  • Write decimal numbers as related to fractions

Grade Five Resources

What should a fifth grade student practice?

  • Write and simplify numerical expressions
  • Generate patterns from a given rule
  • Use place value understanding to read, write and compare numbers to thousandths
  • Multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm
  • Divide using place value strategies
  • Add, subtract, multiply and divide with decimal numbers
  • Add and subtract fractions using a standard algorithm
  • Multiply and divide fractions using models

Your awesome Grade 5 teachers suggest that you use Zearn to review lessons within Mission 4, starting with Lesson 1.

Reminder: You can access Zearn through Classlink.