Helping your kids understand the rudiments of math can often be a difficult and tiring process, but there’s no way to avoid it — these are things they just have to know if they’re going to be successful. But the learning process can be made easier if you turn it into a series of educational games.

Here are 13 great math games that you can play with your kids to help them master addition and subtraction.

Using Lego bricks

Math with dominoes

Using clothes pegs

Using pots and ice cream sticks

Counting berries

Buttons on images

The ’Centipede’ Game

The ’Thermometer’ Game

The ’Magic Trick’ Game

Squashing plasticine

Walking along the path

Counting on fingers

The apple tree