Fun History & Math Game

It’s busy work. Let’s just get that out of the way. This is the epitome of busy work. And I still love it.

Sometimes you just need something to keep the students busy. I loved taking the opportunity to just relax with my students but I still had to keep them busy with something.

Maybe you’ve got an assembly that is messing with your usual schedule. Or your class isn’t taking a standardized test and you need some activities and games. You have a headache and you just aren’t in the mood today. Whatever. This is a fun history and math game that can save you if administration walks in and looks at what your students are working on.

I was inspired to make this resource by being subjected to my mother’s insistence that I watch trashy reality TV with her when I visited. To my surprise, the show she watched featured a fun math game exactly like this but without the history prompts. So yes, apparently good things come out of reality TV.

Follow each prompt in order. Do NOT use order of operations. Be tough and make students work the problems by hand (some answers get into the millions) or be very kind and let them use calculators. That depends entirely on your mood.

All answers are whole numbers. No decimals. There are also no negative numbers. If students get decimals or negative numbers they made a mistake somewhere.

Maybe I can persuade you to pair this resource with another super fun resource I have in my TPT store. Fun History Writing Prompts. Read the blog here or click here to go directly to my TPT store.

Buy both in the bundle to save 20%.