Multiplication is a standard to quickly recognize adding groups of numbers. Here are 14 easy activities, anchor charts and tips to use with a few multiplication worksheets included.
I hope you will find these helpful in planning how to best teach math to your third grade and fourth grade students.
Free Multiplication Activities
1. City Scape Multiplication – A beautiful way to connect art with math! Have students write sentences for the arrays of windows in a city-scape art project.
2. Multiplication Bracelet – Students plan to create a bracelet. They create a sentence to spend an imaginary budget before making a pipe cleaner bracelet.
3. La Multiplication Con Nerds – Create a yummy array that is highly motivating by gluing nerds… and perhaps eating a few {yum!} to model a multiplication story.
Multiplication Worksheets and Games
4. Four In A Row – A deck of cards and markers are the tools needed to play four-in-a-row to practice multiplication skills.
5. Times Table – A circular times table is a different way to practice and see patterns.
6. Multiples Flip Cards – Grab a set of clothespins to make these self-correcting task cards for the multiples of 4 or 7 or have an answer of 6 or 8.
7. Multiply Dice – With graphing paper and dice, use the numbers rolled to make a box and a sentence. Who can roll the biggest box?
Tips for Teaching How To Multiply
8. Masters Belt Rewards – Create masters in multiplication by recognizing student progress. Give students new belt colors (just like in karate) as awards.
9. Multiplication Worksheets and Facts – Use visual connections to real life items to help students see groupings within multiplication scenarios.
10. The 9’s trick – Once you teach the trick to knowing the 9’s facts, create an anchor chart to help students remember. BONUS: Here’s a video to help ingrain the multiples of 3 into your students’ brains!
Anchor Charts
11. Brace Maps – Use brace maps to represent different ways to do multiplication problems.
12. Bow Tie Method – Offering a different strategy, a way to decompose numbers to solve.
13. Multiplication is… – Once students are exposed to lots of types of scenarios, create a chart to help them recall the different examples.
14. The Property of Zero – Bring the concept to a second grade level when you’re introducing the concept of multiplying by zero.
I hope you found these easy resources and lesson ideas to be helpful in planning and differentiating your math lessons.
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