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Fast-Paced Arithmetic Practice Built for 5th Grade Skills

Help 5th graders sharpen arithmetic skills through quick multiplayer rounds built for upper-elementary math practice.

MathIt turns 5th grade arithmetic practice into a live competition kids actually want to play. With quick rounds that challenge multi-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fraction-ready thinking, it helps 10- and 11-year-olds build speed and accuracy while racing friends in real time. Whether they need extra practice at home or a fun way to review core skills, MathIt makes arithmetic feel exciting instead of repetitive.

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Features

Everything you need to make math practice stick

All Math Operations

Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots, and powers. Full arithmetic coverage.

100% Free to Play

All core features are free. Multiplayer battles, difficulty levels, leaderboards, and 20 languages included.

20 Languages

Play in your native language. MathIt supports English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, and 14 more.

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Try it now — 60-second drill

Answer as many as you can in 60 seconds. No sign-up — this is the same practice you get in the MathIt app.

Sample problems

48 ÷ 12 = ? Show answer
4
10 × 16 = ? Show answer
160
1014 − 35 = ? Show answer
979
6 × 23 = ? Show answer
138
11 × 22 = ? Show answer
242
854 − 588 = ? Show answer
266

Skills you’ll practice

Arithmetic Mental Math Multiplication

Mixed arithmetic in 5th grade

At this level the useful skills are strategy and estimation: anchoring percentages on 10%, halving and doubling to simplify, and knowing roughly what an answer should be before calculating it. Estimation is the check on everything else — if 47 × 21 should be around 1,000, a result of 9,870 is visibly a mistyped keystroke.

Fifth grade moves from whole numbers to the rest of the number system: fractions with unlike denominators, decimals, percentages, and order of operations. Percentages are where arithmetic becomes visibly useful outside school, and the students who cope best are the ones whose basic facts are automatic enough to leave attention for the new structure.

5th graders are expected to handle percentages, averages and order of operations; after that comes percentages, averages and order of operations.

Watch for working an expression strictly left to right and ignoring precedence.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is mixed practice better than practising one operation at a time?
Both have a use. Practising one operation builds the facts; mixing them builds the habit of reading the problem before answering, which is what breaks down in word problems and on tests. Use single-operation practice to fix a gap and mixed practice to keep it.
What mixed arithmetic should a 5th grader know?
Enough to handle percentages, averages and order of operations.
Why does my 5th grader keep getting mixed arithmetic wrong?
Most often: working an expression strictly left to right and ignoring precedence.

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