Today's Classroom Activities :

Multiplying Cards

Multiplying Cards
Math Remove the face cards from a deck and lay the remaining cards face down. Players choose two cards to multiply. When all the cards have been used, check the answers and give two points for each correct answer. The highest score wins.

Salute
The mathematical goals are to practice basic multiplication facts and to think about the relationship between multiplication and division. The game is very adaptable to addition and subtraction.

Math is In the Cards takes a classic and new activity that use a deck of playing cards to teach math concepts – "52 Pick-up," anyone?

Multiplication War
The mathematical goals are to practice multiplication facts and to introduce/reinforce the commutative property of multiplication. When students play facing each other, they will instinctively read the cards they see from left to right—so each round will state the number fact both ways. This game is highly adaptable and can be used with its traditional rules at the K-1 level to reinforce magnitude of numbers. Use it in grades 1-3 to reinforce addition facts. It can be used in grades 6-8 to practice integer operations by making red negative and black positive.