Welcome back!!! This school year I am making it a point to make the fluency portion of my math block more fun, while educational. With in researching ways to achieve that goal, I came across a fluency activity called MULTIPLICATION WAR (CARD GAME)
Multiplication War Card Game: How to Play
- Remove the Jacks, Kings and Queens from a regular deck of cards.
- Shuffle.
- Players place cards face down in a pile.
- At the count of three, both players flip over their first card.
- The first person to say the product of the 2 cards receives both cards and puts them in a separate pile.
- If both players say the answer at the same time, the cards are put in the middle of the table.
- The next player to win the "flip" gets the cards in the middle of the table in addition to the cards just played.
- The winner is the person with the most cards at the end of play.
Reflection: In Grade 4, one of the instructional focuses should be on students developing understanding and fluency with multi-digit multiplication. I do believe activities like this will open the students minds and horizons when it gets to mathematics, and especially multiplication. It is something that will hopefully engage our students and keep them wanting to learn and master there multiplication facts more.
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