Fact Families

 

We used this in our classroom when introducing multiplication.  We will continue to use it to reinforce the connection between multiplication and division.  We supply the number sets and the students fill in the fact families.  They can be cut and stapled into mini books for practicing facts, too.  I just posted this as a FREEBIE on my Teachers Pay Teachers store.

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All of my products will be on sale! Check out Spring Showers and St. Patrick's Day Fractions! I also have a new FREEBIE, Fact Families Resource!

Buddy Games!

One of the most popular rotations during our math workshop time is always "Buddy Games"! The one in the picture above is Frogs and Lily pads. The first player rolls 1 die to determine the number of lily pads needed.  He or she rolls again to determine how many frogs on each lily pad. Then that player writes the repeated addition sentence and the multiplication sentence for the frogs and lily pads. This is reinforcing the basic concept of multiplication and helping our students learn basic facts.

Multiplication is the Name of the Game!

I'm looking forward to using this resource with my class to assess their understanding of multiplication.  It is available at my store on Teachers Pay Teachers. We have been learning the vocabulary associated with multiplication.  We have used Marilyn Burns' lessons on Circles and Stars and Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream.  We have been using manipulatives to create arrays and have been writing fact families.  We have talked about equal groups repeatedly.  We have connected multiplying with adding and are showing the relationship between repeated addition and multiplication sentences.  I think they will be ready to show their understanding of multiplication by the end of next week.  Then comes the hard part of learning the facts!!! More on that later and our ice cream sundae incentive!

Math Workshop

We have been doing BUILD workshop during our math time this year! We recently introduced multiplication. In our "U = Using Manipulatives" center, kids have been using sentence frames to explain arrays.  In the picture, our student is looking at an array of gingerbread men.  He uses manipulatives to re-create the array.  He explains that there are 2 rows of gingerbread men and each row has 6 gingerbread men in it, for a total of 12 gingerbread men.  We use Evernote to record their work.  This has been very successful!