Free math games for kids, from counting to times tables
Six activities that run in order: what a number is, then how to count in jumps, then how to carry, then the tables, then the clock.
- Free, with nothing to buy and no premium tier
- No ads, no trackers, no analytics of any kind
- No account needed to play
- Works offline, built for the family iPad
- Every line is spoken aloud, in English and Spanish
How it works
The hard ones come back sooner
Joya keeps a record for every single fact your child meets. Miss 7 x 8 and it comes straight back, in the same sitting. Get it right and it waits a day, then three days, then a week, and after four correct answers in a row it goes quiet for three weeks. That is the Leitner system, the boxed-flashcard method that spaced repetition software is built on, and it means a five minute session lands on the handful of facts still shaky rather than the twenty that are already fine.
Each child carries their own level in each skill, across the three grade bands the app asks for: before kindergarten, kindergarten through 2nd grade, and 3rd through 5th grade. So a first grader and a fourth grader can share one tablet and get different questions. Nothing is timed against a clock, nothing is scored against another child, and a wrong answer gets a correction rather than a buzzer.
Every prompt is spoken aloud, in English or Spanish, so a child who cannot yet read the question can still answer it.
The six math activities
Column Math, on the right, is where Joya started. It was built so one kid could have as many addition and subtraction problems as he wanted without anyone writing them out by hand, and it still does exactly that: a fresh problem at his level, every time, carried and borrowed properly.
The other five arrived the same way, one at a time, as they were needed.
Numbers
Preschool to 2nd grade
Counting, number recognition, and what a number actually looks like as a pile of things you can count.
Skip-Count Bridge
Kindergarten to 5th grade
Counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. The on-ramp to multiplication, and the reason times tables later feel like a shortcut instead of a wall.
Column Math
Kindergarten to 5th grade
Multi-digit addition and subtraction on paper, carried and borrowed properly, one column at a time.
Flashcard Sprint
Kindergarten to 5th grade
Times tables on a spaced repetition schedule. The facts a child keeps missing come back sooner, the ones they own come back rarely.
Card Flip
Kindergarten to 5th grade
The same times tables, dealt as playing cards. Turn two over and say the product before the answer lands.
Clock
Kindergarten to 5th grade
Telling time on a real analog face, starting at the hour and working down to the minute.
Free to play, anywhere
No sign-up, no download, no card. Add your kids' first names and start.