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About MathFun

Made by a parent, for parents.

I’m Howard. I built MathFun for my own two kids, Claire and Jeffrey: fresh worksheets for everyday practice, and math battles for a little friendly competition.

Claire
Jeffrey

The two kids who started it all.

01The search

I tried every worksheet service I could find.

My kids needed more math practice, so I did what most parents do: I went looking. Every service fell short in its own way.

  • Ads everywhere. Hard to keep a child’s eyes on the math.
  • A maze of menus. It took click after click to find the right set of problems.
  • The same PDFs, forever. A few dozen fixed problem sets that never change.
  • Answers on a separate sheet. Questions and answers printed apart, so checking meant flipping between two pages.

None of them was something I was happy to put in front of my children. So I stopped looking for the right tool, and started building it.

02Better worksheets

The worksheet I wanted for my own kids.

I wanted to choose what my kids needed to practice, set the difficulty, and print a clean worksheet. When they needed more practice, I wanted fresh questions, without another search through a library of PDFs. That became the worksheet generator in MathFun.

I also wanted checking to be easier. The answers sit along a fold-away strip on the same page. Fold it behind the worksheet while your child works, then unfold it to check each row. One page to print, keep, and check.

03A little competition

Then I added a reason to ask for more.

Claire and Jeffrey love Roblox and games like it: two players, head to head, and the score settles it. That made me wonder. If they’ll battle over anything, why not over math?

So I added Battle alongside the worksheets. Both players get the same problems on their own screens, and whoever answers more of them correctly, and faster, wins. On the very first day, Claire and Jeffrey battled back to back for a full hour.

1 hourof back-to-back math battles, on day one

04Open to everyone

So I opened it up to everyone.

Some days call for a worksheet and a pencil. Other days, a friendly battle gets the practice going. I built MathFun to make both easy, and opened it up so other families could use it too.

The worksheets and battles are free to use, need no account, and have no ads, which is exactly how I’d want it for my own children.

Howard, founder of MathFun

HowardFounder of MathFun, and Claire and Jeffrey’s DadBritish Columbia, Canada

Your turn

Make room for a little math.

Print a fresh worksheet for pencil-and-paper practice, or start a friendly battle on two screens.