Addition/Multiplication Clue Cards

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Students sort addition or multiplication flash cards and set aside the facts that are not automatic. Students then record a "clue" on the card to help them derive the fact.

Online Multiplication Game

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Select this link to play a product game on Illuminations. Designed for 2 players.

Strategies for Understanding

The following order is suggested for understanding multiplication:
  1. Multiplication on a Number Line
  2. Arrays
  3. Skip Counting & Songs
  4. Advanced Arrays
  5. Using Known Facts to Determine Unknown Facts

Strategies for Recall

After students have comfortably developed several strategies to determine every multiplication fact, you can use these activities to help improve recall. 

Basic Math Facts

Original Game: War
Adapted Game: Addition Top-It
(from Everyday Mathematics, 2011)

Grade Level: K-5 depending on the adaptations used
Materials Needed: Deck of cards with 0-9 (can use a regular deck with Ace=1 and Jack = 0).
Number of Players: 2
Instructions:
  1. Shuffle the deck and place it number-side down.
  2. Each player turns over 2 cards and calls out the sum of the numbers.  Players can use any strategy necessary to find the sum, but should be encouraged to use their most fluent strategies.  Players should check each other’s sums..
  3. The player with the largest sum wins the round and takes all of the cards.
  4. In case of a tie for the largest sum, each player turns over 2 more cards and calls out the sum of the numbers.  The player with the largest sum takes all of the cards from both plays.  The game can end when not enough cards are left for each player to have another turn, although each player can continue to play from their taken cards for any length of time if they wish the game to continue.
  5. The player with the most cards wins.

Adaptations to this game include:
·       Addition Top-It for Younger Students (only use cards with values 0-3); Kindergarten
·       Doubles Top-It (turn over 1 card and double it to practice addition doubles); 1st/2nd Grade
·       Subtraction Top-It (turn over 2 cards and find the difference); 1st/2nd Grade
·       Multiplication Top-It (turn over 2 cards and find the product); 3rd-5th Grade
·       Addition Top-It with Three Addends (turn over 3 cards and find the sum); 1st-3rd Grade