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And for one of our fun games for teaching multiplication, division, subtraction and addition, you can try our Quiz Master:

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Materials:

A 4×6 Poster or any size you desire

Construction Paper

Dark Marker

Regular Paper

Pen

Glue

Adhesive Tape

Teacher’s Instructions:

1. Find a poster board with a popular cartoon character or age-appropriate movie that will appeal to the students. An example would be Sponge Bob Square Pants or Harry Potter.

Make sure you find a picture that is sturdy enough to cut into pieces as well as easy to cut, or you can use the construction paper to support the back of the poster. Use the glue as adhesive for the poster and the construction paper.

2. You can break up the picture into as many pieces as you would like. Cut the desired number of sections to make the number of puzzle pieces.

3. Write a variety of different multiplication table problems on a piece of paper. This will be for your eyes only.

4. On the back of each puzzle piece, you can write the answers that correspond to the puzzle piece problems you previously wrote. Also, be sure to add some type of adhesive to the top of the puzzle piece so it will stay on the board.

Classroom Instructions:

This excellent activity involves using the multiplication tables to put together the pieces of a puzzle to form a picture. Each multiplication problem that is answered correctly, corresponds to a specific puzzle piece and where it should be placed on the board. The teacher will be instructing the class and have students come up to the board to solve multiplication problems in order to accomplish the solving of the multiplication problems and the piecing of the puzzle.

Depending on what grade this is for, the multiplication problems can vary in difficulty, from very basic to advanced. When you have completed the game, the children will see the end-result which is the completed puzzle.

…And making times tables easy learning, remember our brilliant Bingo Game:

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What you will need:

Deck of cards per 3 players at a time- average class size 30-35 (12 decks)

The  students are first put into groups of 3. There are 2 players that compete against each other. The third player in each group is the person who controls the dealing of the cards. The dealer takes two cards from the deck and places them face down. Then once both players are ready, the dealer flips over the cards. The students try to multiply the two cards that are exposed. Whoever answers correctly keeps the cards. The cards then have a point system. If the student answers incorrectly then the other student has a chance to guess the correct answer. If the student answers correctly then he/she obtains the cards. If the student does not know the answer or does not answer correctly, then no one obtains the cards/points. Therefore, whoever has the most cards at the end of the game is the person that wins.

Teachers can also continue playing this game by taking each winner from each group and have the best of the best compete against each other to find out who knows how to multiply the best. The winner of the entire class can then be assigned to some special task or treat.

Tips:

To make the game more student centered you can buy children’s playing cards that could be a favorite character of the students, or a theme of a popular kids movie.

To make this game even harder or for students who are older you can add

one more card to the original 2 card format. Therefore, instead of students having to multiply 2 cards, they would have to multiply 3 cards. This would make this a lot more challenging and really test the multiplication skills.

Teachers can also have the students make up a sentence that incorporates the answer of the two cards. This exercise will encourage them to learn how to multiply – and, stimulate their creativity as well.

Did you know that most people in general tend to do better with any activity when they are competing against someone else? One great way to accomplish this is to incorporate a technique through a fun and stimulating school activity. The way that this game begins is each student being given different times table problems.

Each problem has a point amount. For each correctly solved problem that the student has correct, he is assigned the amount of points associated with that problem. For example, 1×1=1, the student would be given 1 point; 2×2=4, and so on. If the problem is answered incorrectly, no points are gained. As a matter of fact, the student loses the amount of points that correspond to the problem they answered incorrectly. This technique makes the children even more interested in learning multiplication tables as well as answering the problems correctly. It will also motivate them to correctly answer the equations, especially those with the higher numbers so they can accumulate more points.

At the end of the assignment, each student’s score is added up and the person with the most correct problems, as well as the most points is designated as the winner. If there is more then one winner, then you can do a sudden death match and have each player compete against each other until there is a winner. Or, you can reward both of them with the title of “Multiplication Masters” and they can be the designated team leaders when you play this game another time.

You can also add even more fun to this game by breaking the class up into teams and assigning 5 players to each team. This allows the students a chance to interact with each other and learn the value of teamwork. Plus, for those students who are struggling, they will be able to work with other students that can help them out.

By incorporating this fun game into your teaching plan, learning multiplication tables will be a lot more fun for kids, plus they will benefit from working with other students. They will also learn a valuable lesson that integrates the concepts of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

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2. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow – For this activity, a pocket chart is ideal, although a magnetic white board may also be used. Have the words “Yesterday was” on one row of the pocket chart. On the subsequent two rows, have the words “Today is” and “Tomorrow will be”. Have days of the week cards set aside for use. Ask students, “What day was it yesterday?” Choose a student to find that day of the week and put it in the top row beside “Yesterday was”. Then have students read with you, “Yesterday was _______ (whatever day of the week it was). Ask the students, “What day is it today?” Choose a student to put that day on the middle row. Have students read that sentence aloud with you. Then ask students, “What day will it be tomorrow?” Choose a student to put that day of the week on the bottom row of the pocket chart. Read that sentence aloud with the students.

3. Days At School – Keeping track of the days spent at school is a fun activity for Early Years children. When the number of days at school reaches 100, the class can celebrate with a 100-Day party. One way to keep track of the days at a school is to take three two-liter milk cartons and cut the tops off them. Then tape them together so they sit with the holes at the top. Cover them with construction or wrapping paper. Write “Ones” on the box that is on the far right when you are facing the boxes. Write “tens” on the middle box and “hundreds” on the box on the far left. Punch a hole near the top of the front side of each box. Make three sets of small square cards with the numbers 0 to 9 on them. Hole punch each set of cards. Run a string through one set of cards and through the hole in the “Ones” box. Tie the string. Do the same for the “Tens” box and the “Hundreds” box. Each school day, a student places a straw in the “Ones” box and flips the cards so the number showing corresponds with the number of straws in the box. When there have been 10 days at school, bundle the 10 straws with an elastic and place in the “Tens” box. Flip the cards so that the card showing on the “Tens” box is 1 and the card showing on the “Ones” box is 0. When there are 10 bundles of ten in the “Tens” box, students have been at school for 100 days. Group the 10 bundles together, place an elastic around them, and put the bundle in the “Hundreds” box.

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There are certain constructive guidelines that will help you and the children you teach be motivated. First off, it’s wise to remember that making the worksheet like a game and keeping it fun will entice the child to want to do more. Build a challenge into the task you set for the child so that he or she will want to rise to the challenge. Remember, nothing worth doing is easy, but for a child it’s good to make it enjoyable. A bad experience with a math worksheet could easily set the youngster off the whole subject entirely. Use the elementary math worksheets that you know the class is capable of but then act as if you’re not sure if they can do them. Saying things like,

“These problems might be very tricky for you,” is a great motivator.

Teachers should also watch they don’t demoralize students accidentally. Those who know certain things can inadvertently put off those who don’t and it’s especially easy for an adult to crush a child’s confidence. Always remember, it’s a teacher’s job to facilitate and not take over. To that end, make sure to keep your hands off the student’s elementary math worksheets, even when they make mistakes that you would find east to correct.

There are three things you should never do as a teacher and these are: Hold the worksheets up in front of the child when they can hold them by themselves. Pick up a child’s work uninvited and them what to do when you can just as easily give them a choice. Another common problem occurs when the child struggles with a particular problem presented on the elementary math worksheets. Here it’s best for you to let them linger on it for a few minutes before solving it for them. If you let frustration linger for too long it could become as demoralizing as the aforementioned mistake.

Remember to make it fun as well. Although elementary math worksheets are an important phase in their development, you don’t need to let them know how serious they really are. When the child grows tired or fidgety, change the pace of materials or move on to a brand new activity. There will always be time to come back to the worksheets later.

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3. Incorporate computers into your math lesson plans. There is a vast amount of math building skill games available and, moreover, you will be teaching your elementary student important computer skills.
   

4. During other parts of your lessons plan, ask your children to do things by using math. Example: you can ask your students to get out 15÷5 pieces of paper or 2X3 folders. Incorporate the math into everything you do during the day.
   

5. Bring children friendly tape measures to school and teach your students to measure each other first teach them how to read the measurements). Break your students into pairs and have them measure each other.
   

6. Personalize your math lessons, especially when counting, by letting your students count how many things they have at home; I have 4 dogs or my mommy has two cars.

7. This may seem simple but use flash cards as these can be pulled out at any time during the day to reinforce and repeat the math problems you are working on.

8. Instead of asking your students to solve word problems, have them figure out what steps are needed to solve it, maybe even start with a math problem that uses the steps in the math word problem. (If addition and subtraction are needed, do a few of those math problems first)

9. Take your math lessons outdoors and measure your student’s shadows at specified points during the day.

10. On sunny days, teach your students about diameter, circumference, and ratio by measuring around a tree’s trunk and measuring its shadow. Start by holding a ruler to the ground, at a 90 degree angle from the ground, and measuring its shadow; from that ratio of measurements you can accurately estimate the tree’s height.

11. The outdoors is also a great tool for learning charting and temperature measurements. You can chart the temperature changes, pollen count, precipitation, when the sun rose and set, etc…

12. You can even teach your students to chart how long it takes you each day to go places in the school (lunch, restroom breaks, etc…) and compare the times.

13. Use small packages of multi-colored candies to teach probability. Have your students sort the candy into piles of different colors and chart the numbers. The students can then figure out the ratio of each color and then figure out what the probability of selecting in particular color candy our of a large bag is.

14. A simple, yet effective tool in teaching math is repetition.

15. Alternate between lecturing, games, worksheets, and other activities so you can reach each of your students (who all have different learning styles).

16. Use items, such as buttons, so that your students can create different numerical equations. Example, if you have 8 buttons, your students can write out 4+4=8, 2×4=8, 16÷2=8, etc…

17. You can write out on the board different categories of shapes (geometrics) and then have the students find things in your classroom for each category. (Tiles on the floor are square, trash cans are cylinders, the clock is a circle, etc…)

18. Have weigh-ins in your class, if it’s your students or different objects in the classroom, to teach the different weight measurements.

19. This may seem obvious, but get the parents involved. Assign activities that have to be done at home or even over the summer to encourage continued learning.

20. Have your students keep a math journal. This can help them record what they have learned, what they are having problems with, answer specific questions you have asked about math, even graphing things that happened at home (what time they had supper, when the phone rang) etc…

21. If your school will allow it, actually tape different math problems in the bathrooms, that way your students will be thinking about solving math problems un-routinely during the day.

22. You can encourage your students to learn multiplication (or whatever part of math you are learning), depending on there level of knowledge, by having a quick quiz right before lunch; the first one to finish the quiz is first in line, the second is second in line, etc… Eventually, the students at the end of the lunch line will study more so they can get lunch first.

23. To help those shy students and encourage students to help each other all you need are green and red cups because, if during a math lesson (or any lesson) you can ask if everyone understands the math problem, those who understand lift the green cup, those who do not the red one. In addition, the student can leave the red cup on the corner of his/her desk to receive more help when practicing what you taught them.

24. Try a new twist on baseball. Instead of using a ball and bat, use math problems. Have your class divided into two teams, who ever would be the batter is asked a math question, if he/she gets it right he/she moves to first base; it the answer is wrong, the team gets an out. (You can choose however many outs it takes to switch teams)

25. A greater than/less than game that is good to play any time you have spare time is to think of a number in your head (between 1 and 25) and let your students guess at the number; you can say something like it is greater than the number your student guessed or you can say the number I am thinking of is greater than one but less than 25.

26. Have your students, especially if they are having a problem, explain to you what needs to be done in order to solve the math problem, this way they may see what they are doing wrong while reinforcing what you have taught them.

27. Come up with as many different ways as you can to teach the same problem.

28. You can use different textures, such as sand paper, to cut out numbers and help your students learn how to write the numbers by tracing the cutouts.

29. Label different containers in your classroom with what goes in them and the amount of that item that goes in them so that when your students are cleaning up they have to use math to do so.

30. This works, especially if you need a quiet moment! Ask your students to be silent and not move for an entire minute or two and help them to time it; this helps them learn how long a minute is while learning to read a clock.