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Showing posts with label multiplication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label multiplication. Show all posts
Monday, April 18, 2016

iWorksheets - For Those Times You Just Need a Worksheet!

Hi everyone,
I'm Josie from iWorksheets at Teachers Pay Teachers. I'm a primary teacher with a heart for art! I don't have a blog of my own, but thought I'd try out the blog scene here on Who's Who.

To try out great resources for your little learners, check out this Free Sampler Pack. There are seven (7), full size worksheets, with answer keys included, for you to use with your kids. Hey! Can't pass up free worksheets!


In my next post, I will show some of my resources in action. I wanted to give you a heads up so you could benefit now.

Have a great week! 


Friday, November 6, 2015

Fall Multiplication Sort

Hello everyone!  It's Greg Coleman from Mr Elementary Math and I have been busy lately writing about multiplication.  I have recently written about fun ways to teach multiplication and great books that help introduce multiplication.

Fall is here and in the spirit of the season I wanted give away a free sample of one of my seasonal products that reinforces multiplication.  It is a true or false sorting activity.

Sorts are a great instructional strategy because they:

1 - Are more interactive than worksheets
2 - Can be easily used a formative assessment
3 - Lend themselves to working with a partner or group
4 - Are an example of how you can use one of the researched based high yield instructional strategies in the classroom (Marzano - Similarities and Differences)



Click on the photo below to grab the FREE sample



If you would like to check out Fall Edition Multiplication Games & Activities in its entirety check it out HERE.  Enjoy!







Saturday, September 26, 2015

Top 5 Tips for Mastering Multiplication in a Month


Every year it is the same. I give my new 5th graders a 25 problem single digit multiplication assessment and it is obvious by the results, most do not know their facts.

I know it was taught in previous grades, but yet the retention by many just isn't there. For my first few years of teaching I basically just drilled all students expecting them to master the facts in a timed pressure cooker. What I wasn't realizing was that some students just don't learn that way. I finally changed my ways about 15 years ago and started offering different strategies to my students.

Below I will highlight my top 5 tips to mastering multiplication in a month.

1. Make up Raps
Yes, you heard me right. Allow the students to make up a rap about the facts they are having trouble with. It is amazing how much more they will retain if they are given the freedom to create their own raps/rhymes about the facts they struggle with. I have a created a rap for the 6s, 7s, and 8s. You can download it for free here.
FREE Multiplication Facts Rap Game Activity for 6, 7, and 8s

2. Game Boards
This one is quite simple. Grab any old game board where students have to shake dice to move forward. The catch is that whatever number is rolled on the dice relates to counting down in the flash card pile and solving that problem. For example, a student rolls a "5." The student would go to the stack of flash cards, count down to the fifth one, and solve the problem. If s/he gets it correct, the game piece stays on the spot. If the answer is wrong, the game piece goes back to the starting point before the dice was rolled.

3. War
This is by far my students' favorite game! Break your students up into partners. Take out the kings, queens, and jacks. Leave in the ace as a value of 1. Deal out all the cards face down equally to each player. Then when a players says "go," each person flips up a card. Whoever multiplies the two numbers correctly first wins the cards. Play continues until one person has all the cards. To add a little challenge you can use the kings, queens,and jacks as well with values higher than 10. 


4. Practice strips
These are real easy to make. Basically, you type out the multiples of each number up to 10 in rows in a Microsoft Word document, making sure to leave spaces between each set of numbers. For example, on one line you would have: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, and 30. Then on the next line: 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, and 40. When you have finished with the facts you want, you cut them out into strips, copy them on to card stock, laminate them and then bind with a ring at the top corner. Now you have made an easy flip book of multiplication facts for your students! Click here to download this free resource.


5. Practice at Home
Students still need to practice their facts. At the beginning of the year, I send home the flash cards that come with our math curriculum. But you can find free flash cards online as well. Have parents make it a special time with their child. You may want to  Click here for some free flash cards to download.

There are so many other great tips out there to mastering multiplication. We'd love to hear what you use in your classroom!

Click here to purchase our super bundle of multiplication intervention activities with over 50 pages or resources included.







Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Are You Game? Mastering Multiplication Facts with Games!

Hi Everyone,
It’s Teresa here from
Fun Games 4 Learning. As you can guess from my blog name and also my
TpT store, I am all about games.

I love using games in the classroom especially for math!



It is wonderful to see kids so enthusiastic about a game that they don’t even realize that they are learning and applying math skills

Today I would like to share some of my
favorite games that I use for reinforcing multiplication facts.

As children play it is amazing how quickly they develop an instant recall of their basic facts. My favorite games are those that are quick and easy to prepare and quick and easy to play. The first one I have to share with you is a game that I call Find It First.

FIND IT FIRST
Find It First is a simple game that can be used to practice many different skills. It is a quick game for 2 players. Once the first round is over, 2 new players can take their place.


On
the board or a piece of card write the answers to the facts that are to be studied. For example, to study multiplication facts for 7 write the answers randomly over the board or card. I then add a few random numbers also. I like to use a small whiteboard.

Make sure the numbers are where the children can reach them with a pointer or a ruler. The two players then stand either side of the numbers. The caller or the teacher calls a number fact, e.g. 4x7. The first player to find the answer and point to it scores a point. When we play it in the classroom, the first player to score 3 points is the winner. After that we choose two new players.

The kids really love this fast paced game.
 
Another favorite for basic facts is a simple domino game.

DOMINO KEEPERS MULTIPLICATION
This is a game for 2 players. All of the dominoes are placed face down in the centre. Both players pick up a domino at the same time. Each player multiplies the numbers on their domino and the player with the highest answer keeps both dominoes. If both players have the same answer, each keeps a domino. The winner is the player with the most dominoes when all dominoes have been used.

 
 
 
This game ticks all of the boxes - the kids love it, it is simple to play and all you need is a set of dominoes!

I also have many printable games that can be used for multiplication facts.

NO PREP MULTIPLCATION GAMES 
These no prep games are really popular with the kids and also the teachers. Many teachers use them for homework and have the parents play the games with their children. All the kids need are pencils and some games require dice.

The games are ideal as a math center or as an activity for fast finishers.

There are some freebie games for you to try at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multiplication-1199527 . 
 


There is a larger collection of 26 no prep multiplication games available at http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multiplication-Games-1197085


You will find that the games are differentiated so that you can have some children working on times 2 facts while others are challenged by harder facts.
In these games the 2 players compete to either make the longest line or to make four in a row. There are also games where players have to find a line of 3 numbers that can create a multiplication family, e.g. 9, 4 and 36. I love the challenge of this game as it really does make the kids think and apply their facts.


 
Well Happy Multiplying! I hope you and the kids enjoy these games!

Till next time!
Teresa

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Gobbling Up a Freebie!

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! Here in Canada we have already celebrated Thanksgiving but because of blogging I feel like I get to celebrate it twice a year.

Here is a Thanksgiving freebie for you. Included are a multiplication practice page, a crossword puzzle, and  funny Thanksgiving writing paper.
All of these are just a few pages from my Thanksgiving Worksheets and Activities for Intermediate Grades Bundle.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Worksheets-and-Activities-Intermediate-Grades-104636 

Cheers,
http://terristeachingtreasures.blogspot.ca