Have you ever been that teacher who has complained or been frustrated by the fact that your students don’t know their times tables? As Grade 3 and 4 teachers, we feel you! Building up your students’ times table fluency is so critical in helping develop their numeracy skills.
In today’s episode, we are going to share 10 fun ways to engage your students in learning their multiplication facts which in turn will build their fluency and overall confidence as little mathematicians. Big promises? No way! All these games and activities have been tested in our own classrooms over the years.
Here are 10 games we love to help build multiplication fluency:
- Building blocks
- Pop stick skip counting
- Uno card multiplication games
- Coloured rice or bean search
- Egg carton game
- Playdough arrays
- Ask me badges
- Gone fishing times table game
- Multiplication Flowers
- Guess Who game for multiplication
- Bonus: Our FREE Flip it game
We hope you are ready for your students to become more fluent and confident in recalling their multiplication facts!
If you know a teacher that struggles with this same problem, share this episode. As they say, a problem shared is a problem halved!
Rainbows ahead,
Ashleigh and Alisha
Resources mentioned in today’s episode
- Types of beans: Dried kidney beans, black beans, borlotti beans
- Need a visual? See all today’s ideas in action here.
- Board games for learning blog post
- Episode 33: Our favourite Maths resource, UNO Cards
- Uno card activities to use in your Maths Groups
- Guess Who Multiplication game
- Free Ask Me badges
- Free Flip it game
This episode is sponsored by Transform your First Years – A membership for new teachers that will fast-track your expertise + confidence – because teacher life is a team sport!
