Multiplication Excitement Hits Our Room {Freebie}

My second graders are so excited for math now. Why you might ask? It is simple they get to do super cool multiplication. We started this week and they are feeling oh so excited and smart. They rattle off facts to each other and to me when they can find the time. What is even better to see is the few students who were nervous and thought multiplication was going to be scary are understanding how it works. YEAH!!!

From my teacher perspective, I have found multiplication to be a great shake up to our math and we have been doing more activities and less paper pencil activities to help with our skills. 

Lego Towers

Students built a tower out of legos and labelled the array for the legos they used. They challenged themselves to see how many lego parts they had on their tower.

Students hard at work being builders and mathematicians. 

Race to Fill

In pairs, students played a dice and array game. They rolled the dice to create a multiplication fact. Then they filled in the array for the fact on the board. The winner could be chosen by who had the most arrays or who filled in the most squares on the grid. Students loved this game!

Here is a grid to play your own Race to Fill games. Click the picture or here. 

This upcoming week we are going to be heavily into learning and memorizing the facts. I am so excited to be using Jen's Tasty Facts for this!

Happy Weekend everyone!