Math Riddles for Kids to Love Numbers
Make math feel like play with kid-friendly math riddles that boost problem-solving skills and number confidence.
➕ Turn number time into giggle time!
These math riddles for kids sprinkle logic, counting, and patterns into every puzzle. Use them for warm-ups, math centers, or a brain break that keeps the equations rolling.
🔢 Math Riddles for Kids with Answers
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
Add me to myself and multiply by four. Divide me by eight and you will have me once more. What number am I?
I am three-digit neat. My digits add to ten and the first is three. I am even. What number could I be?
If two is company and three is a crowd, what are four and five?
I am a number that when multiplied by any other number always equals the same. What am I?
I have a face and two hands, but no arms or legs. What am I?
What has lots of keys but can only open numbers?
If you count on me you skip a few, I go by twos. What am I?
I am a number less than ten. If you multiply me by two, the answer is twelve. What number am I?
What can you add to 8 to get 4?
I am a triangle with three equal sides and angles. What shape am I?
What has a bottom at the top?
I am more than seven, less than nine, and when you flip me upside down I am still mine. What number am I?
You see me once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years. What am I?
Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
🧮 Try these riddles during:
- Morning math meetings
- STEM nights and family math events
- Small group math rotations
- Homework passes or extra credit fun
- Printable math challenge packets
Watch confidence climb as kids laugh, think, and solve their way through every number puzzle!