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Exercising your brain as well as having fun is possible with some math games that are designed to make you smile. Many everyday activities are related to math, and playing an educational and entertaining game helps to engage children and makes math more accessible. Math problems can contain jokes and tricks and still help children understand basic concepts as well as difficult mathematical operations.

Multiplication Fun
- Billiard Tables is an online game that relies on angles and math. In this fun version of billiard your score depends on your multiplication skills. Try to move the black ball using the cue so that it hits the other balls. The hole that the ball falls into determines the numbers that you multiply to get your score. This game is found at the Math Is Fun website. The site Mad 4 Maths has several games that are fun to play to practice your multiplication skills. Play the 6x Table game, where you have to solve the multiplication quickly so that Oz, the young boy on the skateboard, does not fall off the board. If you are quick, Oz will jump over the ramps and all the other obstacles. Make sure you concentrate on solving the problems and resist looking at the scoreboard.
Tell the Time
- On the website Mad 4 Maths, you help a dog and learn to tell the time. Dad builds a clock out of bones for the dog. Rosie, the dog, cannot resist the temptation, and she eats the minute hand. Learn the time by pressing a button, and you will see all the fun things that are happening during the day. For example, Rosie licks everyone's face to make sure he gets up. There is a second part of the game in which Dad builds a new clock. Rosie wants to meet the mail carrier who is going to deliver the new bone for the clock, and she checks every half an hour to see what is happening.
Bumble Numbers
- Bumble Number is a fun game in which you click on a flower that has a matching equation to the number attached to a little bee. The bee carries a little dandelion seed, and you can blow seeds away by clicking on a big cloud. This game is found at the Fun Brain website.
A Challenge - Tziansitzi Game
- Tziansitzi is a popular Chinese game. You play this game with a friend. Use two piles of stones and take turns extracting stones from the two piles. You can take either the same number of stones from both piles or a particular number of stones from an individual heap. Extracting the last stone is the goal. There is an online version of the game at Think Quest. This game is fun to play to gain understanding into the golden ratio. The Egyptian pyramids have ratios that are close to the golden ratio.

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