Free printable math drills for elementary school
diglabo is a free collection of printable math drills for elementary school, organized by grade and topic so you can go straight to what your child needs. Covering grades 1 through 6 — arithmetic, word problems, geometry, units, and more — the drills follow the sequence used in Japanese elementary school textbooks.
Every drill sheet is a downloadable PDF, and both downloading and printing are completely free — no account or sign-up required. Each sheet is sized to take about 10 minutes, so it works well after homework, for weekend review, or as a preview of what's coming next. An answer key comes with every sheet, so you can check the work right away.
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Guides
See all- Column Addition and Subtraction — Why 23 + 4 Goes WrongAsk your child to write 23 + 4 in column form, and they write the 4 under the tens digit — the answer comes out 63. This is a new stumble that shows up in grade 2, right after a child has learned addition with carrying in grade 1. Here's how to explain what lining up place value means, and how to split practice into stages by the number of carries.
- Why Kids Who Know Their Times Tables Still Trip Up — The Steps of Column MultiplicationJust because a child can say their times tables doesn't mean column multiplication comes easily. Plenty of children get the times-table part right and still stumble on the steps of writing it in column form. A mistake in column multiplication tends to get blamed on the times tables. Usually, though, it's a different step that's the problem.
- Long Division — Fixing "Place, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down"Have you ever looked at a long division problem and wondered where to even start explaining "place, multiply, subtract, bring down"? Most children who stumble on long division aren't struggling with their times tables. There are four steps — place, multiply, subtract, bring down — and every time, they're just skipping one of them somewhere.
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See all- We grew our guides to 20 and rebuilt how you find your way aroundI added 9 new guides, including 3 on column arithmetic, wrote a new paragraph on how each topic connects to what comes before and after it, and added navigation and grade cards to the homepage. Here's all three, together.
- Camera marking for printed worksheets is open as a test releaseThe feature that marks a printed worksheet from a photo is now open to everyone as a test release. Here's how accurate it is today, and what I'm still working on.
- I'm building camera marking for printed worksheetsI'm building a feature that marks a printed worksheet from a photo. It isn't open to everyone yet — here's what it does and where it stands.