Looking for a simple way to bring math to life in your classroom? Number Hive Printable Game Boards are the perfect tool for hands-on, screen-free math practice. Whether you’re working with small groups, whole classes, or setting up math stations, these printables make learning fun and effective.
Why Teachers Love Our Printables
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Print and Go: No prep, no hassle—just print and play! Perfect for busy classrooms.
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Engage Students: Turn math practice into a strategic, competitive game that keeps students focused and motivated.
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Flexible for Any Level: From addition to multiplication, choose the boards that suit your students’ needs.
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Unlimited Use: Download once, print as many times as you need. Ideal for classroom rotations or sending home for extra practice.
How to play: Simply download your Number Hive game boards then print them out. You can use transparent counters to play. Many teachers prefer laminate the boards, or slip them into transparent sleeves, and use white board markers. Download and have the PDF forever!
There’s a short video below showing how to play. Or if you’d prefer an A4 PDF, you can find it here.
We now have 56 Printable Game Board varieties!
Ultimate Package!
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Perfect for all ages
Ultimate Package includes 56 Different game boards with 20 PDFs of each.
Addition: Integers (positive and negative), dice, time, fractions, algebra, linear graphs
Subtraction: Positive integers
Multiplication: Integers (positive and negative), decimals, fractions, algebra, exponents, radicals, distributive property, The Hive Maze
Division: Positive integers
Conversions, gradients and more…
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Perfect for 12+
Advanced Package includes 12 different game boards with 20 PDFs of each.
Multiplication: Algebra, exponents, radicals (surds or square roots), distributive property STEPS 1-5
Addition: Linear Graphs
Gradients of Linear Graphs
Prefer to try before you buy? Download your Number Hive free sample pack of printable game boards!
🌶️ MILD Game Board Packs
Addition: Dice (1-6)
Build additive reasoning and subitizing skills for learners starting out with addition.
Perfect for ages 4-7
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Addition: Integers 1-12
Perfect for mastering addition. Encourage confident learners, build additive fluency, and strengthen the relationship between the inverse operations; addition and subtraction.
Perfect for ages 6-9
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Subtraction: Integers
Build fluency and proficiency with basic subtraction. Our first subtraction version ever also helps build an understanding of inverse relationships.
Perfect for ages 6-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Subtraction: Integers
Build fluency and proficiency with basic subtraction. Our first subtraction version ever also helps build an understanding of inverse relationships.
Perfect for ages 6-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Subtraction: Integers 2
Build fluency and proficiency with subtraction. This is the second version and allows students to venture into negative numbers.
Perfect for ages 6-11
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Division: Integers
Build fluency and proficiency with basic division. Our first division version ever! Students build flexible fluency and explore the inverse relationship with multiplication as they strategise.
Perfect for ages 7-12
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Addition: Time
Helping students work with adding amounts of time but also in converting the different units of time.
Perfect for ages 6-11
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Addition: Integers -6 to +6
Build fluency and understanding of the notoriously difficult concept of adding integers when negative numbers are involved.
Perfect for ages 7-13
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Understanding Fractions Series 4 STEPS
Build conceptual understanding of fractions. Click below to take a look at all four steps in the series.
Perfect for ages 6-11
Choices include:
- Small Group packs: 5 game boards
- Class packs: 20 game boards (40 Students)
CONVERSIONS – Converting fractions, decimals and percentages PACKAGE
Build fluency in converting fractions, decimals and percentages. This package is all 6 different conversions. The boards include wholes, halves, quarters, fifths and tenths.
Perfect for ages 7-13
Choices include:
- Small Group packs: 6 x 5 game boards
- Class packs: 6 x 20 game boards (40 Students)
The game mechanics are a little different with only one number pad. Check out a video here.
CONVERSIONS 2 – Converting fractions, decimals and percentages PACKAGE
Build fluency in converting fractions, decimals and percentages. This package is all 6 different conversions. The boards include halves, thirds, quarters and fifths.
Perfect for ages 8-14
Choices include:
- Small Group packs: 6 x 5 game boards
- Class packs: 6 x 20 game boards (40 Students)
Calculating Percentages Series – 3 STEPS
Build fluency in finding percentages of amounts. Click below to take a look at all four steps in the series.
Perfect for ages 9-13
Choices include:
- Small Group packs: 5 game boards
- Class packs: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Fact Group (0,1,5,10)
Master the earlier multiplication facts, deepen understanding, and sharpen mathematical thinking with the simple factors game board.
Perfect for ages 7-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Fact Group (1,2,4,8)
Master the earlier multiplication facts, deepen understanding, and sharpen mathematical thinking with the simple factors game board.
Perfect for ages 7-11
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Fact Group (3,6,12)
Master the multiplication facts in groups, deepen understanding, and sharpen mathematical thinking with the simple factors game board.
Perfect for ages 7-11
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Fact Group (7,9,11) & 1-12
Master the multiplication facts in groups, deepen understanding, and sharpen mathematical thinking with the simple factors game board.
Perfect for ages: 7-11
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Fact Group (1,2,3,4,5,10) & 1-12
Scaffold learning with this progression pack bridging the gap to mastery of 1-12 multiplication factors.
Perfect for ages: 7-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Fact group (1,2,3,4,5,10) only
Master the earlier multiplication facts, deepen understanding, and sharpen mathematical thinking with the simple factors game board.
Perfect for ages 7-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: 1-10
Build confidence and competence for learners focusing on the multiplication facts in the 1-10 range. Great for encouraging students without risking cognitive overload.
Perfect for ages 7-10
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: 1-12 (Times Tables)
The game you know and love is now printable, perfect for use as a stand alone classroom resource, or as the ultimate blended learning multiplication package.
Perfect for ages 8-13
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Integers -6 to +6
Expand mathematical horizons with negative & positive integers. Build fluency in this extremely important foundation.
Perfect for ages 10-14
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: The Maze!!!
Brilliant for a ‘daily maze’ class challenge, or as homework (students explain the journey they took to get from the maze start to maze finish).
Perfect for all ages
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 40 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
🌶️🌶️ MEDIUM Game Board Packs
Addition of Fractions Series – 5 Steps
Build procedural fluency when adding fractions. Click below to take a look at all five steps in the series.
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Ideal for Ages: 7 – 13
Addition: Decimals
Build procedural fluency when adding decimals. Students will add decimals which helps with understanding place value.
Information about this game board package:
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Packs of 5 or 20 different game boards (PDFs)
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Ideal for Ages: 8 – 12
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Decimals
Build fluency and proficiency with decimal multiplication and develop a deep understanding of decimal place value, and arithmetic.
Perfect for ages 11-14
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Fractions
Explore multiplication of fractions, fraction equivalence, simplification and the relationship between fractions and whole numbers.
Perfect for ages 11-14
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
🌶️🌶️🌶️ Spicy Game Board Packs
Multiplication: Algebra
Build fluency with algebraic operations. Foster a deep understanding of this foundational skill for any students studying higher levels of algebra down the track.
Perfect for ages 12-16+
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Algebra 2
Build fluency with algebraic operations. Foster a deep understanding of this foundational skill for any students studying higher levels of algebra. In this version, students work with two variables.
Perfect for ages 12-16+
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Multiplication: Exponents/Powers/Indices
Working with exponents in the game helps develop a deeper understanding of algebraic relationships where powers are involved.
Perfect for ages 12-16+
Choices include:
- Small Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 Students)
Click here to watch a game!
Addition: Algebra
Build fluency with algebraic operations (adding monomials). Foster a deep understanding of this foundational skill for any students studying higher levels of algebra down the track. Especially helpful for reinforcing that you can only add and subtract ‘like terms’.
Perfect for ages 11-14
Choices include:
- Small Group Pack: 5 Game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 students)
Click here to watch a game!
Addition: Linear Graphs
Slope and y-intercept y = mx + b
An engaging way for students to practice straight lines in slope-intercept form. Gets students thinking through what impact the coefficient and the constant term have on the graph.
Perfect for ages 12-16
Choices include:
- Small Group Pack: 5 Game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 students)
Click here to watch a game!
Gradient (Slope)
Help students gain a strong understanding of gradient in the form rise over run. A great pre-cursor to the Linear Graph activity.
Perfect for ages 12-16
Choices include:
- Small Group Pack: 5 Game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards (40 students)
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication: Radicals, surds, square roots
Students can gain familiarity with radicals. Some regions call them surds, others square roots. Either way, these game boards will help students gain a deep understanding of operating and simplifying.
Perfect for ages 12-16
Choices include:
- Group pack: 5 game boards
- Class pack: 20 game boards
Click here to watch a game!
Multiplication of Algebra using the Distributive Property series – 5 Steps
Build multiplicative fluency when using the Distributive Property with Algebra. Click below to take a look at all five steps in the series.
Perfect for ages 13-18
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