Multiplication Monsters

To practice basic multiplication facts students create their own multiplication monsters.  Roll the dice and multiply those two factors to determine your monster's number of eyes, arms, legs, antennae and teeth.  Those scary monsters make math facts fun!

Doubles Show and Tell on your webpage

Here's what you would post:

"Look around your home, in magazines, in books, etc. find examples of doubles (3+3=6). Then upload pictures or add text explaining your double."

Candy Heart Arrays

Students explored multiplication concepts creating candy heart arrays.  They took photographs of their arrays and wrote captions to accompany them.  In their captions, students used multiplication vocabulary terms (factors, products, arrays, and multiples) to describe their pictures.  They wrote repeated addition equations and multiplication equations to match their arrays.  Integrating the writing component was a great opportunity for students to reinforce their knowledge of math terminology. 

Count and Sort App (itunes)

This app is interactive and customizable. The students are given a sum and asked to sort the shapes to make the two addends.

This could be used for the counting on strategy, make a ten strategy, naming numbers and creating the expressions to make that sum, and for making fact families.

Standard: 1.OA.6

Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between

addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8= 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

 

What's My Double (addition)