Leap Year Check

Free interactive math game: Leap Year Check — Is 2024 leap?. Part of the Units & Time category on MathKite.

Example problems

Taken from the generator that powers this exercise. A fresh set appears every time the page is opened, and the printable worksheet holds ten of them.

  1. Is 2023 a leap year?
  2. Is 1900 a leap year?
  3. Is 2000 a leap year?
  4. Is 1800 a leap year?

About this exercise

Deciding whether a year has 366 days.

How to solve it

A year is a leap year if it divides by 4, unless it divides by 100 — but century years divisible by 400 are leap years after all.

Worked example

2000 divides by 400, so it was a leap year, while 1900 was not.

Common mistake

Using only the divide-by-four rule. It gets most years right and every century year wrong.