Multiplication Masters

Hi Everyone! It has been a VERY long time since I have posted. As a fifth grade math teacher, I took some things for granted. One major one was that all of my students would know their 0-12 multiplication site facts as they came in. Unfortunately, this was just not the case. If you're a parent reading this: the BEST thing you can do for your 3rd graders is make sure they know their site facts! Spend 10-12 minutes a night practicing, quizzing them and teaching them how to quiz themselves. Every topic that is covered in math from 4th grade through high school has a basis in multiplication. Knowing one's multiplication facts makes all math concepts more manageable.

After a few false starts, attending several workshops and LOTS of research (read: Pinterest), I made these multiplication sprints. My research and training led me to determine that students master their facts better when taught in chunks. Each week, we spend 30 minutes on practicing the facts, playing multiplication games, and using IXL.com (math concepts website = AWESOME). Further, the students are assigned each week to practice their facts at home.

Every Friday, students take a Sprint. They have one minute to complete 20 multiplication site facts. This week, we did the ones facts. Each student who received 100% on their sprint got their name placed into the "Ones Facts Club." Each of my math students have their name on a clothespin so they can move their name around.

The one below is is for the ones facts. The order I chunk them in is:

ones
tens
fives
twos
nines
fours
eights
threes
sixes
twelves
sevens
elevens