70+ math quiz questions for every grade level (2026)

Maths gets a lot more exciting the moment you turn it into a quiz. This collection has more than 70 questions with answers, organised from Kindergarten warm-ups right through to a genuinely tricky intelligence test, with free templates and tips for hosting it live at the end.

Every answer sits directly beneath its question, and we have re-checked the tricky ones for 2026.

Easy math quiz questions

These make great diagnostic warm-ups, easy enough to build confidence while laying a solid foundation for harder concepts.

Kindergarten and Grade 1 (ages 5-7)

1. How many apples are there if you have 3 red apples and 2 green apples? Answer: 5 apples.
2. What comes next? 2, 4, 6, 8, ___ Answer: 10.
3. Which is bigger, 7 or 4? Answer: 7.

Grade 2 (ages 7-8)

1. What is 15 + 7? Answer: 22.
2. If the clock shows 3:30, what time will it be in 30 minutes? Answer: 4:00.
3. Sarah has 24 stickers. She gives 8 to her friend. How many does she have left? Answer: 16 stickers.

Grade 3 (ages 8-9)

1. What is 7 × 8? Answer: 56.
2. 48 ÷ 6 = ? Answer: 8.
3. What fraction of a pizza is left if you eat 2 slices out of 8? Answer: 6/8, or 3/4.

Grade 4 (ages 9-10)

1. 246 × 3 = ? Answer: 738.
2. £4.50 + £2.75 = ? Answer: £7.25.
3. What is the area of a rectangle 6 units long and 4 units wide? Answer: 24 square units.

Grade 5 (ages 10-11)

1. 2/3 × 1/4 = ? Answer: 2/12, or 1/6.
2. What is the volume of a cube with sides of 3 units? Answer: 27 cubic units.
3. In the pattern 5, 8, 11, 14, what is the rule? Answer: add 3 each time.

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General knowledge math questions

Test your numeracy with this mix of general-knowledge maths trivia.

1. Which number has no value of its own? Answer: zero.
2. What is the only even prime number? Answer: two.
3. What is the perimeter of a circle also called? Answer: the circumference.
4. What is the next prime number after 7? Answer: 11.
5. What is 53 divided by 4 (whole-number quotient and remainder)? Answer: 13 remainder 1.
6. Is Pi a rational or an irrational number? Answer: irrational.
7. Which is the most popular “lucky” number between 1 and 9? Answer: seven.
8. How many seconds are there in one day? Answer: 86,400.
9. How many millilitres are there in one litre? Answer: 1,000.
10. If 9 × N = 108, what is N? Answer: 12.
11. What kind of image can be seen in three dimensions? Answer: a hologram.
12. Which number comes before a quadrillion? Answer: a trillion.
13. Which day is Pi Day? Answer: 14 March.
14. Who invented the “equals” sign (=)? Answer: Robert Recorde.
15. What was the original name for zero? Answer: cipher.
16. Who were among the first to make use of negative numbers? Answer: the ancient Chinese.

Mathematical history quiz

Maths has been used since the beginning of civilisation. Test your knowledge of its wonders and history.

1. Who is often called the father of mathematics? Answer: Archimedes.
2. Who is credited with developing the concept of zero as a number? Answer: Aryabhata (5th century AD).
3. What is the average of the first 50 natural numbers? Answer: 25.5.
4. Who wrote “Elements”, one of the most influential mathematics textbooks ever? Answer: Euclid.
5. Whom is the theorem a² + b² = c² named after? Answer: Pythagoras.
6. What do we call angles greater than 180° but less than 360°? Answer: reflex angles.
7. Who discovered the laws of the lever and pulley? Answer: Archimedes.
8. Which famous scientist was born on Pi Day (14 March)? Answer: Albert Einstein.
9. Who introduced the infinity symbol (∞)? Answer: John Wallis.
10. Who is known as the father of algebra? Answer: Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.
11. Where did the “magic square” originate? Answer: ancient China.
12. Which film is inspired by the life of Srinivasa Ramanujan? Answer: The Man Who Knew Infinity.
13. Who introduced the nabla symbol (∇)? Answer: William Rowan Hamilton.

Quick-fire mental math

Rapid-fire practice to build computational fluency.

Arithmetic speed drills

1. 47 + 38 = ? Answer: 85.
2. 100 − 67 = ? Answer: 33.
3. 12 × 15 = ? Answer: 180.
4. 144 ÷ 12 = ? Answer: 12.
5. 8 × 7 − 20 = ? Answer: 36.

Fraction speed drills

1. 1/4 + 1/3 = ? Answer: 7/12.
2. 3/4 − 1/2 = ? Answer: 1/4.
3. 2/3 × 3/4 = ? Answer: 1/2.
4. 1/2 ÷ 1/4 = ? Answer: 2.

Percentage quick calculations

1. What is 10% of 250? Answer: 25.
2. What is 25% of 80? Answer: 20.
3. What is 50% of 146? Answer: 73.
4. What is 1% of 3,000? Answer: 30.

Number patterns

1. 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ___ Answer: 36 (perfect squares).
2. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ___ Answer: 13 (Fibonacci).
3. 7, 12, 17, 22, ___ Answer: 27.
4. 2, 6, 18, 54, ___ Answer: 162.

Math intelligence test

These push mathematical thinking to the next level.

1. A father is currently 4 times as old as his son. In 20 years, he will be twice as old as his son. How old are they now? Answer: the son is 10 and the father is 40.
2. What is the smallest positive integer divisible by both 12 and 18? Answer: 36.
3. In how many ways can 5 people sit in a row? Answer: 120 (5! = 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1).
4. In how many ways can you choose 3 books from 8? Answer: 56 (C(8,3) = 8! / (3! × 5!)).
5. Solve: 2x + 3y = 12 and x − y = 1. Answer: x = 3, y = 2.
6. Solve: |2x − 1| < 5. Answer: −2 < x < 3.
7. A farmer has 100 feet of fence. What dimensions of a rectangular pen maximise the area? Answer: 25 ft × 25 ft (a square).
8. The sum of three consecutive integers is 72. What is the largest of them? Answer: 25 (23 + 24 + 25).
9. The sum of the terms equidistant from the beginning and end of an arithmetic progression is equal to what? (a) the first term (b) the second term (c) the sum of the first and last terms (d) the last term. Answer: (c).
10. All natural numbers and 0 are called the ___ numbers. (a) whole (b) prime (c) integer (d) rational. Answer: (a) whole.
11. What is the largest five-digit number exactly divisible by 279? (a) 99,603 (b) 99,882 (c) 99,550 (d) none of these. Answer: (b) 99,882.
12. If + means ÷, ÷ means −, − means ×, and × means +, then 9 + 3 ÷ 5 − 3 × 7 = ? (a) 5 (b) 15 (c) 25 (d) none of these. Answer: (d) none of these (it equals −5).
13. A tank can be filled by two pipes in 10 and 30 minutes, and emptied by a third in 20 minutes. If all three open together, how long to fill it? (a) 10 min (b) 8 min (c) 7 min (d) none of these. Answer: (d) none of these (12 minutes).
14. Which of these is not a perfect square? (a) 169 (b) 186 (c) 144 (d) 225. Answer: (b) 186.
15. What do we call a natural number with exactly two distinct divisors? (a) integer (b) prime number (c) composite number (d) perfect number. Answer: (b) a prime number.
16. What shape are honeycomb cells? (a) triangles (b) pentagons (c) squares (d) hexagons. Answer: (d) hexagons.

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