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- Multiplication Guides
- Multiplication Speed Drills
- Multiplication Posters
- Order of Teaching Multiplication
- Multiplication Table
- Multi-Digit Multiplication
- Multiplication Games
Egg Carton Multiplication
Write the numbers 1-12 in the slots of an egg carton. As children learn each times table, guide them to fill the slots to calculate the answer. For 3×4, instruct children to make three groups of four.
Multiplication Guides
Print these multiplication guides, place inside a plastic sleeve, and have children calculate problems on them with a dry-erase marker.
Multiplication Speed Drills
Help children gain fluency withe these multiplication speed drills of 100 questions each.
Recommended goal: completion in 5 minutes.
Multiplication Posters
Use this cheat sheet to help children quickly look up the rules for each times table:
Print these in color and put up on your math wall to help children remember the rules for multiplying each number.
Here is a short trick to memorizing multiplication vocabulary:
Use this poster/slide for teaching about the properties of multiplication:
Order of Teaching Multiplication
Simple Tricks: 0, 1, 10, 5
Repeated Addition: 2, 3
Doubling Patterns: 4, 8
X5 and then…: 6, 7
X10 and then…: 9, 11, 12
Multplication Table
Multiplication Table
Use this multiplication chart as a room poster:
Or, have children fill in this blank multiplication table:
Use these skip-counting charts to help children visualize multiples:
And these ones to fill in the blanks:
Multi-Digit Multiplication
When teaching multi-digit multiplication, have children stand, facing you as you turn your back and lead them in this exercise:
- Right hand points up to the ceiling-shout “Up!”
- Right hand lowers quickly, then points leftward to the ceiling, crossing the chest diagonally-shout, “Across!”
- Form a circle with both hands-shout, “Drop and give me zero!”
- Left hand points rightward to the ceiling, crossing the chest diagonally-shout, “Across!”
- Left hand points up to the ceiling-shout, “Up!”
Print these templates and place in a plastic sleeve for children to copy multiplication problems onto with a dry-erase marker.
Multiplication Games
Fact Family Triangles
Use this fun game to help children practice multiplication/division fact families.
Roll one or two dice each and enter them in the bottom corners of the triangle. Multiply them together to find the top corner of the triangle. Reverse the equation to create division sentences.
Use the back side to grow one of the animal families.
Domino War
Grab some dominoes and turn them all over.
Split them into two even piles.
Line them up in rows facing each other.
Together, call out, “I declare war!” and flip over the domino at the front of each pile.
Each player must say their math sentence fully:
“Five times zero equals zero.”
“Five times five equals twenty-five.”
The player with the higher product takes both dominoes and moves them to the back of their row.
When matching dominoes are flipped over, players can choose double- or triple-war, winner taking all.
The game ends when one player has acquired all the dominoes (or when it’s time for the next subject😎).
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Multiply!
Each student pound a fist into an open hand three times while calling out, “Rock, Paper, Scissors…”
When they say, “Multiply!” each one holds out between 1 and 10 fingers.
Each student’s number gets multiplied by the other.
The first to call out the multiplication answer wins!
Multiplication Around the Block
Multiplication Jungle
Multiplication Honeycomb Game
Multiplication Fact Family Go Fish
Use at least one pack of playing cards for each two players in the game.
Each player starts with nine cards in their hand and may have up to nine cards at any given time. All other cards are placed in a pile
When a player has three cards that show a multiplication fact family, they put them down together.
When a player needs a card to make a fact family, they may ask another player, “Do you have any ____?” If the answer is yes, the cards must be handed over. If the answer is no, they reply, “Go fish!” The first player then takes a card off the top of the pile.
Decide ahead of time if you want Aces to count as one. To make larger products, you may choose ahead of time to put down sets of four cards (such as 4×5= two tens).
The first person to get rid of all of their cards wins.
Doubling Double Digits Worksheet
Use this worksheet to help children learn how to double double-digit numbers in their heads.
Ways to Show Multiplication
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