Math Games Grades 3–5
Math Bingo Review
Standard bingo, except the boxes are answers and you call out the problems — a review-any-topic format that never gets old.
15–20 min 4+ students
Download printable kit (PDF)
What you need
- One bingo grid per student and small markers/counters (both in the printable kit)
Setup
Fill each bingo grid with answers to problems from your current unit before printing, so grids can be shuffled and different per student.
How to run it
- Hand out a bingo grid to each student, with the answers to today’s review problems already printed in the boxes (in a different order per student).
- Read a problem out loud. Students solve it and cover the matching answer on their grid.
- Continue reading problems until someone calls "Bingo!" — verify their answers by re-reading the problems for the covered row.
- Reset with a fresh grid, or keep playing toward a full-card blackout for a longer session.
Variations
- Works for any subject with short, gradeable answers — vocabulary definitions, historical dates, science vocabulary — not just math.
- Let a student volunteer read the problems for the second round.