Just when students get comfortable finding the sum and the difference, math class becomes all about the product. Keeping up can be a struggle. But as stressful as it may be, multiplication is an incredibly important skill to develop. One study found multiplicative thinking to be a necessary ability for later success in many subjects. Students must develop a foundation for conceptual multiplicative thinking by understanding and remembering core multiplication facts.
In contrast to the relative short time needed to develop additive thinking, the introduction and exploration of ideas to support multiplication may take many years and according to some researchers, may not be fully understood by students until they are well into their teen years. Multiplication games are a good alternative to worksheets, and a great way to incorporate visuals and help students move from a concrete to abstract framework by motivating them to learn more.
Multiplication games help students visualize and process content in a fun, engaging format. Use these ideas at any point in your math lesson to liven up the classroom and get your students excited about such an important math subject! Try Prodigy Math today — an engaging, game-based learning platform that assesses student progress and performance as they play. Aligned with math curricula across the English-speaking world, more than a million teachers and million students use it to practice multiplication and more.
Contents Easy classroom games Active games Game show-inspired games Printable games Online games Musical games Card games Why use multiplication games? Back to back Students take turns polishing their math skills with a friendly competition at the front of the classroom. Materials: Chalkboard or whiteboard plus chalk or markers Steps: Choose two students to stand in front of the board facing away from each other.
The person with the highest streak most rounds won in a row is the winner. True or false? Materials: Double-sided True or False cards Steps: Split the class into teams and give each team a true or false card. Give the teams one minute to discuss their answer. Every correct team gets a point. The team with the most points after 10 questions or as many as you want wins. Materials: Oversized inflatable beach ball Permanent marker Steps: Write various multiplication questions on an inflated beach ball.
In an open area, have the students stand in a big circle. After each student catches the ball, they read the question that is closest to their right pinky finger. The entire class says the answer together and the ball is passed to the next person. Bean bag race This game puts a math twist on your traditional relay race. Materials: Small bean bags, multicolored Two medium-sized baskets or buckets you can also use hula hoops Steps: Arrange bean bags on the floor into groups based on color.
Each color will represent a different amount. For example, orange bean bags are 20 each, blue are 10 each and so on. Split the students into two groups and have each group stand behind one of the baskets. Provide a multiplication equation for the class to solve.
Each group has one minute to come up with their answer and strategy. The bean bags in their basket will represent the product of the multiplication question.
Each person can only grab one bean bag to put in their basket and tag the next team member. The team with the most points at the end wins. Multiplication scoot. Each group starts at a different question station and must answer the question card they have, matching it to the letter on their answer sheet.
The game ends when the groups arrive at their original question stations. Take up the questions as a class and see which group got the most correct answers.
Have one team choose a category and point value for the first question. Below are 10 fun multiplication games for kids that will challenge your kids. The multiplication facts games are quick, with easy to understand rules. Similar to a standard game of war, shuffle a deck of cards and distribute the cards equally between two players. Without looking at their cards, the players will both flip a card from their half of the deck on the table face up. The first player that can multiply them together and say the product out loud wins that round and takes the cards.
The player who can collect all the cards in the deck first wins! This game includes 60 cards with 30 multiplication problems.
On one card is the problem and on the other is the answer. Shuffle them together and lay them out on the table face down. Then, match the answers and problems together!
This can be both a single and two-player game. Coming June 15, Guess the Card: For this game, you will need three players. Shuffle the deck of cards, removing the face cards. Aces are worth 1. Two of the players sit facing each other. Deal the cards evenly between the two players. Players place their stack of cards face down in front of them. The third player sits so that he or she can see the players.
At the count of three, the two players facing each other flip over their card and press it to their foreheads, being careful to not see their own card. The third player looks at both cards and calls out the product of the two numbers. Looking at their opponents card, players try to be the first to call out the number on their own card by figuring out what the missing addend is. Cave Run - Multiplication.
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