Math Fact Practice Games

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Here are a couple more ways for your children to brush up on their multiplication facts at home!

1. Play Kakooma

Greg Tang developed a fun mental math game that can be played online or with paper and pencil. Kakooma challenges students to use multiplication to solve a series of deceptively difficult puzzles. The rules are easy: just find the one number in the diagram that is the product of two others. Like all great puzzles, however, looks can be deceiving. Often, the answer is right in front of you, yet your brain won’t let you see it! This is another game that my students beg to play. You can download a sample packet of Kakooma multiplication puzzles from Greg Tang’s Web site.*

2. Play Timez Attack

Timez Attack is a first-person adventure game feels like a “real” video game, and it uses built-in assessments to advance students at their own pace. You can download the free version by clicking the hyperlink above.

*Alycia Zimmerman, Scholastic

Problem Solver

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During Problem Solver this week, students will be asked to create a bar graph.  We haven’t started our data unit yet, but it is always great to experiment with graphing. Below is a really cool resource your child could try!

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