Math is perceived as boring and difficult by most children. This impression starts forming in the primary school days and becomes difficult to overcome in the later stages of schooling. There is a need to make mathematics a fun experience akin to playing. Thus, ‘Teaching mathematics through play’ was taken up as a topic to understand the alternate and interesting ways in which the subject of mathematics can be taught to primary school children. If we observe children closely, their play involves the same set of activities being done over and over again, which helps one ‘play’ better, but without getting tired or bored. Learning involves a similar situation where problems are solved over and over again to be able to'solve’ better. With this similarity existing in both activities, why can’t learning mathematics become more fun? more interesting? This led me to investigate what can be done to make learning mathematics an enjoyable experience and what I can contribute as a designer.