Free Sample
Try the downloadable sample book first and see how the printable pages and online marker work together.
Printable Arithmetic Puzzles
Print a puzzle book, solve by hand, and check the answers online.
Arithmetic Guru combines printable number puzzles with a simple online marking page. Download the sample book, print a page, and scan the QR code to open the matching puzzle in your browser.
Start with the free sample
- Download the sample PDF and print a page in minutes.
- Solve the puzzle by hand with clear number and operator boxes.
- Scan the page QR code or open the marking page to check the result.
Printable Practice
Use the pages for home learning, tutoring sessions, or classroom extension work without putting more screen time in the middle.
Online Marking
Each printed puzzle links back to the matching browser-based checker so students can review the target, the numbers, and the final answer.
The Arithmetic Guru game has lots of names. It's the numbers round from Letters and Numbers, it's similar to 4 4's, sometimes it's just called an arithmetic puzzle.
You are given a few numbers and a target number. Your goal is to use any arithmetic operators on your starting numbers to create an arithmetic expression that equals the target number.
Some variants of the game let you use square-roots, exponentiation, factorial, floor and many other mathematical operations.
The Arithmetic Guru solver tries every possible arithmetic operation in the basic version and therefore comes up with every possible answer.