Can Your Students Solve These Multiplication Table Math Puzzles?
Are you looking for some fun and engaging activities to help your kids practice and understand multiplication?
I started using multiplication table puzzles with my students every week last school year, and the results were pretty awesome, especially when it came to improving their ability to multiply and divide values without relying on memorization.
And if you're a fan of Stanford's Jo Boaler, then you know that she is a huge proponent of using visual math activities (like multiplication table puzzles) to improve student performance.
The following puzzles challenge students to use their math and reasoning skills to find the value of different symbols contained within a multiplication table.
They work like a bingo-table where the icon in each box represents the product of its corresponding column and row.
So go ahead and share the puzzles with your kiddos this week! They make for a great warm-up or cool-down activity for sparking mathematical discussion and creative problem-solving!
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Keep reading to access the answer key and to download your free Multiplication Table Worksheet!
1.) Candy Time!
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2.) Sandwich Day!
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3.) Peanut Butter Time!
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These puzzles are samples from my best-selling workbook 101 Math Challenges for Engaging Your Students in Grades 3-8.
The book is available as a PDF download and you can also get a hard copy on Amazon (Free Amazon Prime Shipping Included; pages are in black-and-white).
Click here to download your free PDF worksheet!
And here are the solutions to today’s multiplication table puzzles:
Candy Puzzle:
Sandwich Day Puzzle:
Peanut Butter Puzzle:
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