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Multiplication Facts and Strategies

October 16, 2016 By Mercedes Hutchens 5 Comments

Multiplication Facts are essential background knowledge for upper grade math.  Going deeper with Common Core Math can be challenging when your students don’t have a solid foundation in multiplication.  Teaching multiplication strategies helps to build a firm foundation for math to come.

Have you ever been in the middle of a lesson trying to teach something like equivalent fractions and realized your students are struggling because they don’t have a secure working knowledge of multiples, factors, and multiplication facts?

5 Strategies for Increasing Multiplication Fact Fluency

As the Common Core pushes teachers and students to go deeper, there is a somewhat unspoken issue.  How can they go deeper when they didn’t come to me with the background skills they should have? How can I teach them 5th grade standards when they didn’t learn what they were supposed to in 3rd and 4th grade?

Students need essential basic skills before they can go deeper.

What do I do when they don’t have them and my pacing calendar doesn’t give me time to go back?

Begin with Assessment

In a world overrun with assessments, you are probably thinking, “Seriously, another assessment? How am I going to have time to teach?”  I know the feeling.  That is why I love technology.

Gone are the days of time consuming tests.  There are now several ways to gather quick assessment data without ever needing to do any grading.  This summer, I spent time experimenting with many and my absolute favorite is Quizizz.

Quick Multiplication Facts Assessments with Quizizz

Quizizz is a free digital assessment tool that can be used on any device that connects to the internet.  You can take a Quizizz quiz right now. Just for you, I’ve set this one up as homework so anyone can use the code to take it up until October 29th at 11:45 pm.  Just go to join.quizizz.com and enter the code 587730.

Use Quizizz for quick fun assessments.

Wasn’t that fun? Don’t you love the memes?

If you’d like to give your students that same quiz, you can.  Just create a free account at Quizizz.com.  If you follow this link, you can assign it to your students.  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/57df19151ea8d5a25babb903

I usually play Quizizz live but the homework option is nice for assigning something if you aren’t one to one with devices.

The best part (to this data geek) is the Quizizz Reports. In mere moments, you can view the data on their website or download it.

You can quickly see online how many questions each student got right on their Quizizz.
You can quickly see which questions were challenging.
Which questions did they miss the most?
Download an Excel File
The download has item analysis and detailed student info.
Put the excel file in your Google Drive and right click to open with Google Sheets.

If you’d like to see sample data in Google Sheets, click here.

If you’d like to screen your students for all multiplication facts, give this longer Quizizz:  https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/57df2fe61ea8d5a25babbcad

Teach Multiplication Strategies

“I don’t know 8 x 7.”  How many times have you heard an upper grade students say something like that?  When you ask them how to figure it out, they stare at you blankly.  Those students learned to memorize without strategies.

We need the students to memorize the facts.  We also want them to know how to figure out facts they haven’t memorized.

Next are several important multiplication strategies:

Multplication Facts Strategy: Arrays

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Multiplication Facts Strategies: Repeated Addition

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Multiplication Facts Strategies: Number Lines

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Multiplication Strategy: Hundred Chart

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Multiplication Facts Strategy: Finding Patterns

Ideally, students will discover patterns on their own.  Of course, they will need prompting and practice to do this. Once a student notices a pattern, they can teach it to their classmates.

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Sometimes, there are patterns we want them to notice.  Telling them isn’t enough, they have to interact with the pattern to really internalize it.

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

Where can I find resources to teach these strategies?

The challenge, especially if you are working in an upper grade classroom is to find time for all of this while teaching grade level standards.

All of these gifs are from my Multiplication Facts, Strategies, and Games for the Google Classroom.

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.I created this resource to allow easy differentiation.  The resource contains 10 slide decks: a teachers manual and a slide deck for each multiplication fact.  There are also 9 answer key slide decks included.

Multiplication Strategies help students understand and memorize multiplication facts.

 

 

I created two videos as part of this resource.  One video introduces students to Repeated Addition.  The other video is an introduction to show students.

Because students are working at their own pace, I wanted students to be comfortable with the tech skills needed, so there are tech tips throughout the slides like this one.

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What if I don’t have the technology?

There are tons of resources for teaching multiplication facts using traditional paper and pencil.  Here are all of my resources for basic multiplication:

Multiplication Resources

Paper and digital multiplication resources by Mercedes at Surfing to Success.

Multiplication Facts, Strategies, and Games for the Google Classroom

Multiplication Facts, Strategies, and Games for the Google Classroom

Improve memorization and help students multiply fluently with this digital Google Slides Resource by focusing on Repeated Addition and other Multiplication Strategies. Fun, self paced, differentiated multiplication practice motivates students to pass each assessment. Multiplication Strategy Videos are included.

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Multiplication Fact Fluency: Games, Timed Tests, Flashcards, and Reward System

Multiplication Fact Fluency: Games, Timed Tests, Flashcards, and Reward System

Motivate your students to learn their multiplication facts! I want my students to be proud of their accomplishments. I also want them to make decisions about their learning based on their assessments. I created this system to help track and motivate my students to memorize their

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Multiples Posters and Activities

Multiples Posters and Activities

Memorizing multiples helps students memorize their multiplication facts. It also prepares them for concepts like Least Common Multiple. This packet covers multiples 2-10. This can be used for differentiated practice. A student trying to memorize the 8s times tables can take a baggie with the multiples of 8 and practice putting them in order

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Multiplication Game: Cover Up

Multiplication Game: Cover Up

Multiplication Cover Up is a multiplication game that helps students practice basic multiplication facts.

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Fact Families: Multiplication and Division

Fact Families: Multiplication and Division

Fact Family Multiplication and Division Animal Theme Focusing on Fact Families is a helpful strategy for learning the relationship between multiplication and division. Some of my student seem to have an aversion to division. When I show them that knowing how to multiply can help them divide, they see it as a short cut.

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Simple Math Games: Multiplication and Division Games

Simple Math Games: Multiplication and Division Games

Multiplication Games and Subtraction Games My students love playing these simple multiplication and division games. These simple math games can be played with or without the placemats.

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Multiplication and Division Word Problem Task Cards

Multiplication and Division Word Problem Task Cards

Multiplication and Division Word Problem Task Cards These dragon themed task cards include multiplication word problems and division word problems in all nine word problem types found in table 2 of the Common Core.

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Multiplication and Division Fact Fluency Bundle by Mercedes Hutchens

Multiplication and Division Fact Fluency Bundle by Mercedes Hutchens

Want your students to have fun while memorizing their basic multiplication and division facts? This bundle contains everything you need to help your students develop fact fluency in multiplication and division. Students work through step by step levels to multiply and divide fluently.

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Filed Under: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, Fact Fluency, Google Apps, Intervention, Math, Multiplication, Technology Tagged With: Multiplication

Comments

  1. Ngawai Kena-Smith says

    October 18, 2016 at 4:59 pm

    Excellent. Thank you so much for this I will be talking with my Syndicate leader today and have this on all our iPads….to support our students learning in multiplication.

    Mauri ora.
    Ngawai

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  2. Kimisha says

    February 18, 2017 at 11:47 am

    This popped up in my Pinterest feed just as I was wondering what other strategies can I use to teach times tables to my 3rd grade daughter. Thank you!

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  3. Mandy Leik says

    May 9, 2017 at 10:20 am

    This is almost exactly what I wanted to create for my 4th grade students. Thank you for this resource. I can’t wait to use it with my students!

    Reply

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