These help students take multiplication understanding from concrete to abstract. I love using these multiplication subitizing flash cards to foster multiplicative reasoning and automaticity. They are able to solve the fact with multiple strategies, as well as begin to observe patterns and develop a mathematical vocabulary.
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As students work through their booklets, they gain a conceptual understanding of each multiplication fact. I love using my Multiplication Fact Booklets for additional practice. The best way to develop fluency with numbers is to develop number sense and to work with numbers in different ways, not to blindly memorize without number sense. When students focus on memorization, they often memorize facts without number sense, which means they are prone to making errors and are not flexible in their thinking. Many of us have standards that include ‘fluency’ as a goal, and this fluency comes about when students develop number sense, and isolated practice and repetition will not develop number sense in our students. I’m not a proponent of isolated memorization of multiplication facts. I love giving students ideas of games that they actually want to do! The only special materials needed are dice and a deck of playing cards, which are both extremely inexpensive. Instead, it’s just a new idea for practicing multiplication each week in a game format. This is nothing that I require my students to do or to turn in. I also send home one of my Weekly Multiplication Games for homework, which have been a huge success with my students and their parents. All of my games below are from my No Prep Multiplication pack. It also makes differentiation a bit easier, because I can have one copy of each form and not have to search and print again and again. This allows me to reuse the same forms again and again. If I’m trying to save paper and copies (which is always), I like to laminate the paper and let students use counters rather than coloring in boxes. Most of my games include a built in spinner or dice. I always have at least two stations where students play different multiplication games. I also incorporate multiplication practice into our math centers each week. I love having students create a multiplication booklet for essential vocabulary. Even though I don’t teach all of these terms for mastery, it’s still beneficial for my students to have a general understanding and recognition for terms such as factors and multiples. I’m also careful to spend considerable time teaching multiplication vocabulary. I use these for extra practice, not my actual math lesson or instruction.
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It’s important to keep in mind that not all students need this extra practice, but I’ve found it particularly beneficial for students with short term and long term memory issues. A lot of the practice I use here is from my No Prep Multiplication pack. I also spend a great deal of time teaching arrays and repeated addition, and a little time teaching multiplication on a number line. First, I begin with a grouping model, where students build models of groups with a certain number in each group. I do not teach a multiplication facts unit, but I do teach a unit on the concept of multiplication and multiplication strategies, and you can see some of those instructional lessons here. This blog post shares some of my ideas and strategies for teaching multiplication facts, as well as motivating students to learn their multiplication facts. (I plan to write a new post sharing what fluency in math really means.) I want multiplication facts to be effortless and automatic for my students, so their focus can be geared toward problem solving and upper level math concepts, rather than basic computation. As a former fourth grade teacher, I also know how difficult fourth grade math (I can only image fifth and beyond) is when students did not know their multiplication facts. While I absolutely believe in teaching for conceptual understanding and deep meaning, I also believe it is important for my students to know their multiplication facts with fluency. As a third and fourth grade teacher, multiplication facts are a huge part of my curriculum.