The Best Math Board Games for Middle School

The goal of this game is to get both of your pawns to the 101 spot before anyone else.

Players move around the board by using different math functions. Along the way they'll pick up cards and bump others off spots they want to occupy.

This is a great game for building mental math skills.

Number rings will help your kids work through math problems quickly in their heads.

During your turn, you'll roll the dice and then use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to choose a number or numbers to cover with your colored ring.

The first one to wrap all 18 spots, wins.

This is the math version of hot potato.

When it's your turn, you and the player across from you will simultaneously roll a set of 12-sided dice. Quickly multiply your numbers together, shout out the answer and if you're correct, pass the dice to the next person.

This is a great game for groups of 4 or more, but can easily be changed up for a smaller number. There are dozens of ways to adapt this to fit the math skills you want to work on with your kids.

When you're looking for games for math, don't just focus on the main functions. Both of these games will help your tween with money management, an important part of math kids need to master.

Consumer math is a topic that isn't always covered in math curriculum, yet it's one that tweens often enjoy because it's practical.

Play Pay Day and Budget with your kids to help them build up their financial skills.

One of the things that makes this game unique is that you're trying to get to zero in order to win.

The deck includes both positive and negative numbers and players need to draw and discard until they get the sum of their hand to reach zero.

Before each round, the dealer chooses how many cards everyone will have in their hands, which definitely changes up the strategy and mental math portions of the game.

This game will help tweens build their spatial reasoning skills, which they'll need for geometry.

The dealer lays out 16 cards in four rows of four. On each card are colored dots and circles with holes on them.

Everyone races to grab cards that when stacked on top of each other will have the same colored dots sitting inside the open circles, completing them.

Tweens will love using their minds to flip and rotate the cards to create a completed stack.

This a fun fast-paced mental math game that's great for older kids.

Nine cards are placed face-up on the table in a grid pattern and players race to find an equation among the cards.

Shout out your answer before anyone else and if it is correct, you get to keep the cards.

This is a cool, comic book centered math card game.

You're the leader of a group of superheroes who are trying to capture a group of villains that have come to Infinity City. You'll need to use the sum of your team's power (using addition, subtraction, and multiplication) to take down the bad guys.

When your cards match their weakness number, you catch the outlaw and put the card into your trophy pile. The person with the highest points at the end, wins.

They have an expansion pack too that includes more heroes and villains, but more importantly, players will need to use division and decimals to reach your target sums.

What a fun way to work on math skills!

This crossword-style math game is not only a great one for math class, it's also fun for families to play together.

Players try to build math problems using their tiles. Each tile has a point value, so try to build complex equations that add up to the highest total points.

If your kids loved playing with geoboards when they were younger, they're going to have a blast with this geometric pattern card game.

Everyone is randomly given a set number of sticks of different lengths that they'll try to use to make different geometric shapes. You can only play two sticks at a time, so everyone's trying to complete a shape using the same game board. Definitely challenging.

It's a great way for tweens to work on the concept of composite shapes - how basic shapes come together to form a new, more complex shape, a key skill in geometry.

To start, everyone is given a colorful card that has five numbers surrounding one in the middle. This is that card's answer. The goal get to the answer, using different math functions. If you succeed, you get to keep the card.

One thing that I like about this mental math game is that you choose how challenging to make it for your kids. For the medium mode, players will need to use three of the five numbers on the card to reach the answer. If your kids need more of a challenge, they can play with all five numbers on the card.

In addition, each card has a difficulty ranking, from one to three stars. Meaning the math gets more challenging the more stars you see.

On top of all that, there are multiple modes of play, so it's easy to keep kids engaged.

To begin a round, roll the die. Then, players lay down as many of their tiles as possible, in a crossword-style format, in multiples of the number that was rolled.

Every time you play, it's a bit different based on the tile you choose and the number rolled. And if you're looking for even more variety, there are five different game variations included which will help to keep it exciting for tweens.

Players roll the two 12-sized dice and use math functions to move left or right around the board.

Along their journey, they'll collect tokens. Once they reach 200 credits, they unlock the paths in the middle, leading to infinity. The first person to reach the center with exact numbers, wins.

This is another game that's a fun way to sharpen mental math skills.

Played like standard dominoes, you'll try to get rid of your tiles by matching fractions, using a variety of formats.

The classic game with a math twist. Instead of calling out a letter and number, you'll read off an algebraic equation. If players have the answer on their boards, they get to cover it up.