![]() ![]() You play until someone has no cards left. You flip your top cards over and the first person to shout out the answer of those 2 numbers multiplied gets both cards. You could do a version of the game WAR where you each have half the deck of cards. There are bingo games you can buy (or could easily make) and various games you could play with a deck of cards. The object is always getting more comfortable with times table facts. There are many different versions of multiplication games out there, but often simple is best. Let your imagination run free here! (Or let Pinterest’s imagination run free!) 4. There are many educational activities you can do that will involve math fun. This gives a child good experience in visualizing what a multiplication question is asking for.įor those kids who really learn best when their hands are moving, bring in some manipulatives! Grab some linking cubes of different colors or set up some math stations with toy animals and have your child figure out how many animals they have in total if they 3 lambs, 3 horses and 3 cows. You can view this in rows, columns, or individual squares.ĭifferent brains will see it differently. However may little squares are inside your large shape is the answer. On graph paper, you draw an array – which is essentially a box to fit them dimensions of the multiplication fact.įor example if the question is 3 x 4 you would draw a line down that includes 3 squares, over 4 and then close it up into a box. Some curriculums will use this method and some will not, but I find this can help for a visual learner. The skip counting songs helped one of my daughters commit some of the more difficult multiplication families to memory. You can use something like Musical Multiplication from The Good and the Beautiful or search skip counting or multiplication songs on Youtube. Many times, when a child is struggling to learn something, they just need to be taught it in a different way. There are many creative ways to help your child learn their multiplication tables. Teaching Multiplication Tables Creatively ![]() Whether you integrate these printable coloring multiplication pages into your daily math work or set them up in a math center a day or two a week, they can be useful. You may not realize it, but teaching your young learners to skip count is training them to become a third grader who can learn their multiplication tables. In its earliest stages, multiplying is skip counting anyways. Just separating your blocks into groups of 2 is an introduction into these basic operations! Kids of all ages can begin to learn these more difficult concepts by learning to make equal groups. It is much easier to take a few extra weeks for multiplication practice in 3rd grade than it is to realize your older kids can’t do their advanced math in high school because they don’t know their multiplication tables. ![]() Moving forward without developing of a good foundation with these math skills and math facts will just lead to frustration and struggles down the road. There is no benefit or need to move on before a child is ready. One of the many benefits of homeschooling is the ability to be able to teach to mastery. Regardless of the grade your child is in or the amount of lessons designated to it in the curriculum, basic facts are crucial. One thing I have noticed through all my teaching years is that some concepts just need more time. These number multiplication worksheets are a great way to help our kids practice and learn their times tables. Math has such a bad rep for being boring and hard but it doesn’t have to be that way! We can show our students that we can commit facts and knowledge to memory while understanding it and having fun. Well, that was a bit of a tangent! Can you tell I am passionate about education, and especially math. ![]()
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