Skills Tested: Early Multiplication, Subitizing

Materials Needed: printable cards

Directions: flip through cards one by one. Ask student: how many dots are there? Prompt student to think of addition in terms of groups, to connect towards multiplication.

Example video of the cards in action: https://vimeo.com/324813802

Credit: Graham Fletcher

Skills Tested: Early Multiplication, Factoring

Materials Needed: Rolling thunder directions here 

Directions: roll two standard dice (1–6).  Ask students: we have (3) groups of (4) – how many altogether?

Guide students through different ways of counting the groups, encouraging them to "skip" count (4, 8, 12) rather than count by ones (1,2,3,4,...,12).  Have students record their work.

Credit: Antonia Cameron.

Skills Tested: Multiplication Facts, Factoring

Materials Needed: create worksheet here, pen or pencil

Directions: Generate and print your custom worksheet. You may consider making some worksheets of varying difficulty.

Show your student how problems are embedded in the puzzle. Then, have them find as many problems as they can. Guide the student through the troubleshooting process, e.g., "does 4 x 2 = 9? what ways are there to figure this out?"

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Skills Tested: Division and Factoring within 10

Materials Needed: deck of cards, remove jokers and face cards (Jack, Queen, King)

Directions: similar to "Go Fish".  Changes: look for pairs of cards that divide each other ("division pairs"), always draw instead of asking others for cards.

Deal 4 cards to each player; reserve rest for draw pile.

In each player turn: take 1 card from draw pile into hand. Do any two cards divide each other?  If yes, player may discard one such pair, then turn passes to next player.  If no, turn immediately passes to next player.

Player who discards entire hand first wins.

Player can choose to keep a division pair for later play; they are not required to discard promptly.

Some discussion prompts for teacher at http://www.cuppacocoa.com/math-game-divide-and-conquer/

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Skills Tested: Multiplication Facts, Factoring

Materials Needed: create worksheet here, pen or pencil

Directions: generate and print a custom worksheet.

Make up or generate a sequence of random numbers within 100 or so (e.g., using dice or cards). For each number, ask the children to look for all factors on their bingo boards.

Works best if students are comfortable with multiplication within 100.

Credit: Tuan Nguyen (source code).

Skills Tested: Addition and Subtraction

Materials Needed: A white board (available at reading team), 3 students

Directions: Ask two students to sit in chairs back to back. Each of them will write a number on a board, but since they are back to back they will not be able to see the other person's number. A third student then looks at the two student's numbers and adds them together. The third student shares the sum and then the remaining students will have to use that information to figure out what number their partner had.