Making maths a fun concept for your kids can be hard, but it doesn't have to be, especially if you can find a board game that disguises learning.
Black Friday is the perfect day to grab yourself a bargain for Christmas, and these finds from Amazon could keep your kid busy for hours.
From educational games involving pizza to ten minute brain challenges, Amazon have got you covered this year.
1. Osmo Pizza
Price - £38.99
This game is ideal for kids aged five to teen, and comes with an Osmo iPad base, pizza/tray, toppings, money tiles, stackable storage for game pieces and an app.
The iPad-compatible game requires a tablet for game play, and involves making pizza for customers and collecting payments.
Great for addition, subtraction, fractions and mental maths, the game will also test design and communication skills.
As a whole, Osmo Pizza is a real-world mathematics game which involves problem solving as well as basic business concepts.
Forget boring sums, because this interactive game involves pizza, and everybody loves pizza.
Originally priced at £59.99, you save 35 per cent this Black Friday and can get one day delivery with Prime.
2. Osmo Genius
Price - £90.99
This price includes seven games plus your kit, and also two family-friendly games so that everybody can get involved.
With Osmo Genius, your kid can interact with actual hand held pieces and an iPad, bringing actions to life.
Maths games include solving equations to get past annoying bugs to adding, counting and multiplying tiles to pop number bubbles.
Suitable for ages 6-10, in the pack you get an Osmo base and reflector for your iPad, as well as tangram pieces, number tiles, word tiles, stackable storage and 7 game apps.
Skills learnt include collaborative learning, addition, subtraction and multiplication and counting.
Originally priced at £134.64, you save 35 per cent with this Black Friday deal.
3. Leapfrog Rockit
Price - £25.99
This particular game is great if you’re travelling over Christmas, and focuses on literacy, science and creativity as well as maths.
There are a variety of different controls with 12 games, and is ideal for kids aged 4+.
Leapfrog Rockit is basically a handheld console with rechargeable batteries and has cute virtual RockItPets to encourage nurture play.
Originally priced at £52.50, you can get this game for £25.99 on Black Friday with a huge 50 per cent off.
4. Brainbox Football
Price - £9.59
Brainbox Football features curriculum-based maths concepts for Key Stage 2 in England and Wales.
The fun little card game has hundreds of questions that you can enjoy for as little or as long as you like.
The game itself was actually designed by a primary school teacher to reinforce concepts taught in classrooms.
It contains 55 game cards with 440 individual questions, 1 rules card, 1 8-sided dice and a ten second timer for extra pressure and competitiveness.
Save 20 per cent this Black Friday, as the original price was £12.00 and it’s now £9.59.
5. Euclidean Cube
Price - £15.29
Enjoy digital calculation, sorting colours of rings and practicing counting skills with this wooden number puzzle toy.
Eucilidean Cube is perfect for children aged three to six, and will keep them entertained for hours with plenty of challenges.
It’s the perfect game for Christmas day or a Christmas party that really encourages creativity, imagination, and number practice.
Originally priced at £19.99, save 24 per cent this Black Friday on Amazon.
6. Japace
Price - £13.98
This educational game has 71 pieces of counting/sorting bears including rainbow counting bears, matching cups, dice and storage.
It’s a great tool to use to practice counting, and will develop maths skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
The educational colour sorting combines matching, counting and placement of objects so your child will become aware of movement and placement of objects.
Save 20 per cent this Black Friday with the Japace counting game.
7. Monkey Balance
Price - £10.39
Perfect for children learning maths between three and five, Monkey Balance introduces numbers in a fun way.
It comes with 19 monkeys, numbers one to ten, 30 double-sided cards, monkey scales, a base and two scale pans.
The game will learn the rules of addition and subtraction when playing, as well as learning how to count with monkeys.
Save 20 per cent this Black Friday with £2.60 off the original retail price.
8. Sricam
Price - £7.19
This fun mathematical game lets your child practice maths with fish, 25 different fish to be exact.
The fishes are printed with numbers from 1 to 20 and 5 operational symbols such as plus, minus, subtract etc.
With the fish pole, your child will pick up the fish which has a magnet attached to its mouth so they can move it around.
Sricam provides hours of endless fun and plenty of practice with sums, perfect for children of early ages.
Save 20 percent this Black Friday and get the game for £7.19.
