Multiplication Fact Game?

There's a fun game called MathSmart - sort of a dominoes type multiplication game. Actually it's addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (sold as separate sets). All of my students enjoy it!

Have you tried searching for music or songs? Now, this is hearkening back to the dinosaur ages but I remember being in elementary school learning multiplication through music. My teacher would turn on the record player and we would all sit around and sing songs related to our multiplication tables. To this day I still remember the music and am singing it in my head as I type this response. Yes, I fully admit I'm a supernerd!

Think about it, does your 9 year old sing along with songs on the radio? Do they know the lyrics and can recite them even without the music? I know there are a bunch of kids who can sing whatever Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus or HSM song is out there, so why not give it a shot?

I like the jump rope idea...basically anything that gets multiple intelligences involved can help learning and retention.

I was a third grade teacher for six years. My students loved multiplication wrap ups. Students physically wrap string to match facts and answers and sing a rap song to go with it. They have a great book (full of "alternative" worksheets and games) that will help too. It's called 10 Days to Muliplication Mastery. It worked with ALL my students! The teacher store called "The Chalkboard" carries them and you can find them at Amazon.com also. Good luck!

My 3rd grader would cringe when it came to multiplication. I found this free game that you download called Timez Attack. My son plays this at least 3 times a week and it has helped him with his tables. The free download is a base version and it really helped him to learn his facts w/o stressing. Here is the website:

http://www.bigbrainz.com/

Good Luck - HTH!

There are a bunch of great FREE websites with games that help kids practice their facts. Try funbrain.com. I've found that kids are more motivated to practice on the computer than with more traditional methods. I also love Everyday Math's multiplication baseball, which somebody else mentioned. The best way to get him on board is to make it fun!

I'm not sure if v-tech makes them but they are a hand held game sort of thing called math blasters. They have a different math cartridges addition, subtraction, etc. My kids have them and they really have fun doing it. It's a game to see how many you can get right. It looks like a tube, like a bank teller tube thing that gets sent into the tunnel at the drive up. And there are dials on it and such. Good luck!

If your children receive book order at school, they always have fun math game sin there. I just ordered an addition and subtraction game for my classroom from there. If you don't receive them, you can go to scholastic.com and order from there. Good luck!

go to google.com and find website for schaumburg township library and elk grove village library. Within website are learning links. I think my third and fifth grader have aplusmath on their favorites. Many games for all facts and you can do 60 second timed segments, just 1s and 2s, then 3s and 4s... It is independent yet they can try different games and see results. Good luck

There is a game through Everyday Math called "multiplication baseball". If you google "multiplication baseball" you can get the Everyday Math site that has the rules and the game board you can print out on your computer. Kids, esp. boys, seem to love this game and it has helped a lot of kids with whom I've worked (i'm a private tutor).

Also, try "multiplication war" - you can play with a regular deck of cards - take out the face cards. Split the deck in half. In regular "WAR", each player flips over a card and the higher card wins both cards. In "multiplication war" each player flips over two cards, multiplies them and says the product out loud. The higher product wins all 12 cards. If there is a "WAR" - two equal products - you say "I DECLARE WAR" while flipping two cards face down and two face up. Again, higher product wins all cards. I'm sure you can figure out some way to play if "war" bothers you - you could probably call it "peace" and do the same thing. :)

I just take a regular deck of cards and call it the TEN minute game (just because we only take ten minutes every day) . (Be creative....Jacks=11; Queens = 12 and take out the jokers and kings). Some days, we review certain numbers or I'll remove all of the 1's and 2's. I lay out two cards, side by side, and he turns it into a problem that he has to say quickly ("9 x 4 = ...") He only has seconds to come up with the answer. We do it quickly, if he makes a mistake, ALL Cards in the two piles go at the bottom and we go through them again. If my son gets through the two decks of cards, twice, perfectly - he is out the door and playing! Sometimes we do the answers to a beat, make up a song or has to jog in place (my son loves music so that works for him.) If he consistently gets an answer wrong...you stop and make him say the whole equation 5 times - to a beat is good. Keeping it short and sweet (and it's a quick mom/son time alone which my son likes!) holds his interest and has improved his multiplication skills immensely! Good luck.

J.,
My kids jump rope while counting the multiples we clap and walk in a "M" pattern. This has helped my kids and many others in my neighborhood. Good Luck.

J.