Math Bingo Cards

How to play math bingo

1. Give each player a card and something to mark squares with.
2. The caller reads words from the caller's list in any order, ticking each one off.
3. Players mark a word when it's called. The middle square is free.
4. The first to complete a row, column or diagonal shouts "Bingo!" and the caller checks the card.

Before you call a word, give a clue or a fact about it and let players guess. It turns a game of luck into a quick review.

Good to know

• The equals sign was introduced by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde in 1557 because, he wrote, no two things could be more equal than a pair of parallel lines.
• Zero is the only number that is neither positive nor negative.
• Every prime number greater than 2 is odd, because every even number above 2 can be divided by 2.
• Teaching tip: after solving, have students write a word problem that uses at least three of the vocabulary words.

Words on these cards

AdditionSubtractionMultiplyDivisionFractionDecimalEquationNumberSumDifferenceProductQuotientNumeratorDenominatorPercentRatioPerimeterAreaVolumeAngleTriangleSquareCircleRectanglePolygonGraphPatternEstimateAverageMedianModeRangeIntegerEvenOddPrimeFactorMultipleDigitPlace ValueGreater ThanLess ThanEqualRulerMeasureCalculatorAlgebraGeometryVariableZeroAdd

Want a quiet activity too? Print the math word search with the same words.