Factor Race is an exciting, fast-paced cooperative learning game that will help your students build speed and accuracy with finding all the factors of numbers up to 100. This skill is increasingly important in the upper elementary grades as students tackle increasingly difficult division problems and dive into fraction computation.
Take turns with a partner. Read the first problem and circle E if the problem calls for Estimation and C if it calls for exact Computation. Work out the answer in the space and write it on the line. If both partners agree with both answers, check the box at the end.
Take turns with your partner. One person quietly reads the word form to his or her partner and writes the standard form next to it. The other person places a check in the box if it’s correct, or discusses it with you if it doesn’t seem to be correct. You can change your answer if you realize you made a mistake. Switch roles for each problem.
Moving Remainders works well as a cooperative learning game for pairs or as a math station activity. Laminate the game boards before use because your students will want to play the game over and over. The objective is to move around the board by successfully completing division problems. Students take turns rolling a die and dividing the number under their game piece by the number on the die. If their quotient has a remainder, they move forward the number of spaces indicated by the remainder. Complete student directions can be found on the next page.
Pumpkin Seed Multiplication is a hands-on activity adaptedfrom a lesson in Laura Candler’s Mastering Math Facts:Multiplication and Division. This activity will help studentsmake the transition from addition to multiplication.
Partner A works the first subtraction problem and checks it with addition while B watches and coaches. Switch roles, and Partner B works the next problem while A watches and coaches. At the end of each row, compare your answers with the other members on your team. Put a check in the box when you all agree on the answers.
Factor Race is an exciting, fast-paced cooperative learning game that will help your students build speed and accuracy with finding all the factors of numbers up to 100. This skill is increasingly important in the upper elementary grades as students tackle increasingly difficult division problems and dive into fraction computation.
Take turns with a partner. Read the first problem and circle E if the problem calls for Estimation and C if it calls for exact Computation. Work out the answer in the space and write it on the line. If both partners agree with both answers, check the box at the end.
Take turns with your partner. One person quietly reads the word form to his or her partner and writes the standard form next to it. The other person places a check in the box if it’s correct, or discusses it with you if it doesn’t seem to be correct. You can change your answer if you realize you made a mistake. Switch roles for each problem.
Moving Remainders works well as a cooperative learning game for pairs or as a math station activity. Laminate the game boards before use because your students will want to play the game over and over. The objective is to move around the board by successfully completing division problems. Students take turns rolling a die and dividing the number under their game piece by the number on the die. If their quotient has a remainder, they move forward the number of spaces indicated by the remainder. Complete student directions can be found on the next page.
Pumpkin Seed Multiplication is a hands-on activity adaptedfrom a lesson in Laura Candler’s Mastering Math Facts:Multiplication and Division. This activity will help studentsmake the transition from addition to multiplication.
Partner A works the first subtraction problem and checks it with addition while B watches and coaches. Switch roles, and Partner B works the next problem while A watches and coaches. At the end of each row, compare your answers with the other members on your team. Put a check in the box when you all agree on the answers.
