Valentine's Day Math Games for Grades 2–5
A whole-class math game for Valentine's week that still counts as test prep: one live-scoreboard board per grade with 30 all-new, standards-aligned questions about cards, candy hearts, class parties, gifts and friendship bracelets. Warm heart-stage art that keeps the focus on the math.
Try a free 10-question sampler of each Valentine's Day board in the Teacher Library (one newsletter signup, no student accounts). The complete 30-question games, with the downloadable offline file, Start Here guide, Teacher Key with worked solutions and Kahoot + Blooket imports, are the TPT editions.
Questions per grade
Six skill areas × five values. $100 vocabulary, $200–$400 procedure and application, $500 reasoning and error analysis.
Offline HTML file
No student accounts, no internet after download. Works on a projector, Chromebook or laptop; scores save in the browser so a game can continue tomorrow.
Kahoot + Blooket files
One ALL-30 file plus six five-question category files for each platform, so the same Valentine's Day test-prep questions run as a self-paced review.
Grade 2 Valentine's Day Math Challenge
Six categories, five values each: Addition & Subtraction · Place Value · Adding & Subtracting to 1,000 · Measurement, Time & Money · Data & Graphs · Shapes & Equal Groups. Every tile is a four-choice question with a worked solution on the reveal, so teams talk through the math before points are awarded.
Sample question: “Sam has 8 heart stickers. He needs 15 for his cards. Which number makes 8 + ? = 15 true?”
Grade 3 Valentine's Day Math Challenge
Six categories, five values each: Operations & Algebraic Thinking · Place Value & Base-Ten Operations · Fractions · Measurement · Data & Graphs · Geometry. Every tile is a four-choice question with a worked solution on the reveal, so teams talk through the math before points are awarded.
Sample question: “Lena has 24 cards and puts 4 cards in each envelope. How many envelopes does she fill?”
Grade 4 Valentine's Day Math Challenge
Six categories, five values each: Operations & Algebraic Thinking · Place Value & Base-Ten Operations · Fractions & Decimals · Measurement · Data & Graphs · Geometry. Every tile is a four-choice question with a worked solution on the reveal, so teams talk through the math before points are awarded.
Sample question: “Ruby made 42 valentines. That is 6 times as many as Theo made. How many did Theo make?”
Grade 5 Valentine's Day Math Challenge
Six categories, five values each: Operations & Algebraic Thinking · Place Value & Base-Ten Operations · Fraction Operations · Measurement · Data & Graphs · Geometry. Every tile is a four-choice question with a worked solution on the reveal, so teams talk through the math before points are awarded.
Sample question: “What is the value of 36 ÷ (4 + 2) × 3?”
February test prep, not a Valentine worksheet
How does a round work?
Choose the answering team, then a category and a value. Read the question aloud; the team answers with the letter and explains its thinking. Reveal shows the correct answer and the worked solution, then award the points or choose No points. Twenty to thirty minutes for the full board, or one five-question category as a warm-up during Valentine's week.
Is it aligned to standards?
Every question is written to a named Common Core standard for its grade (printed beside each question in the Teacher Key), so the board works for state-test review, MAP Growth practice (suggested RIT ranges above) and everyday standards review. The suggested RIT range is a starting point for practice, not a score prediction.
What is free, and what does the TPT edition contain?
Each Valentine's Day board has a free sampler in the teacher library: 10 of the 30 questions (two of the six categories), playable after one newsletter signup, with a student link that needs no account. The TPT edition contains the complete 30-question game as a downloadable file that works with no internet, plus the Start Here guide, the Teacher Key with worked solutions for all 30 questions, and the Kahoot + Blooket import files. Nothing in the TPT edition requires a signup or a visit to this site.
Are these the same questions as the year-round games?
No. Each Valentine's Day board is a separate set from that grade's year-round Math Challenge, so you can run both in the same year without repeats.
What else is in the series?
The same live-scoreboard format comes in a Halloween set for October and Winter Holiday set for December, plus a year-round Math Challenge Game Show set ↗ — each with its own 30 questions per grade, so none of the four boards repeats a question.
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