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Race a Friend in Fast Online Mental Math Battles

Challenge a friend online and build faster mental math skills through quick, competitive head-to-head rounds.

MathIt makes two player math games online more than a speed contest by turning every match into real mental math practice. Create a private room, invite a sibling, friend, or partner with a simple code, and race through fast calculation rounds that strengthen addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, and more. Between battles, solo lessons and drills help you improve the in-your-head strategies that lead to quicker wins.

Loved by 100,000+ users who use MathIt to build stronger math skills for kids, students, families, and adults.

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Everything you need to make math practice stick

Brain Training Benefits

Improve mental math speed, working memory, and cognitive processing through competitive practice.

Real-Time Multiplayer

Compete with 2-5 players simultaneously in real-time math battles. Every millisecond counts!

All Math Operations

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

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Times Tables

Grade 3+

Adding Doubles

Grade 1–2

Number Bonds

Grade 1–2

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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

7 × 2 = ? Show answer

14

35 ÷ 7 = ? Show answer

5

239 − 146 = ? Show answer

93

458 − 156 = ? Show answer

302

228 − 71 = ? Show answer

157

50 − 47 = ? Show answer

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Why competition helps math practice

A live opponent changes the incentive. Practising alone, there is nothing stopping a child from slowing down, guessing, or quietly stopping; with someone answering the same question at the same time, speed matters and attention holds. Scoring the first two correct answers rather than only the fastest keeps more players in the round after the opening seconds.

Third grade has all four operations available at small numbers, which makes random mixed practice possible for the first time. The useful difficulty is choosing: deciding what a question asks before answering it. Word problems fail here not on arithmetic but on picking an operation from a keyword rather than from the situation.

More than one way to practice math

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does scoring work in a multiplayer round?

The first correct answer scores 2 points and the second scores 1. Rewarding second place keeps the round competitive for more than one player, which is what stops slower players disengaging.

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.

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Why competition helps math practice

More than one way to practice math

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