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March 9, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Easter Multiplication Facts Math Activity

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Easter Multiplication Facts With Boom Cards. Ideas include different strategies to teach multiplication facts or the times tables.

Easter Multiplication Facts Boom Cards Fun Activities

How to teach multiplication facts or how to teach the times tables?

This is perhaps the question we reflect upon when we first begin teaching our students multiplication facts or the times tables. But before we look into the different strategies involved, let’s answer a few more questions:

Why is it so important for students to know their times tables?

Knowing the times tables gives students knowledge and confidence when it comes to computing larger numbers.

Besides working with equivalent fractions, division problems, or factors and multiples, for that matter, require sound knowledge of multiplication facts.

In what grade should students learn multiplication facts?

The ideal grade to learn the times tables is grade 3, however, 2nd graders who have sound conceptual knowledge may also be taught some multiplication facts.

Should we have students learn the times tables by rote?

Memorizing the times tables is effective when it comes to recalling multiplication facts quickly.

However, before students memorize times tables facts, they need to conceptualize their understanding of the multiplication fact in question.

There are several ways to do this. Let’s look at these Easter-themed multiplication fact cards.

1. Using arrays to represent Easter multiplication facts With Boom Cards

An array is a useful representation of a multiplication concept. It is an arrangement of pictures or objects in rows or columns. In this Easter multiplication facts array, there are 3 rows and 8 columns.

It is a 3 by 8 array.

It visually represents the multiplication fact 3×8 to give the product of 24.

 

times tables with arrays

2. Using equal groups to represent Easter multiplication facts

We can also visually represent a multiplication fact by showing objects in equal groups.

In this Easter multiplication facts example, there are three equal groups. There are twelve bunny peeps in each group, for a total of 36 bunny peeps.

This visual representation is interpreted with the multiplication sentence 3×12=36.

times tables with equal groups

 3. Relating Easter Multiplication Facts to Repeated Addition

Understanding the concept of repeated addition is one way of relating multiplication to addition.

In this example, we can add the number 7 three times to get the product 21.

We can also times 7 by 3 to get the same product of 21.

We can point out to students that using a multiplication fact is a far better alternative to adding the number 7 three times to arrive at the product.

Relating repeated addition to multiplication facts

4. Finding the Missing Factor In a Multiplication Sentence

This strategy requires students to identify the multiplication times table that has the two given numbers in the fact.

In the Easter multiplication facts example below, students will identify the numbers 7 and 56 in the seven times tables. 

They will identify the missing factor 8, which is multiplied by factor 7, to give the product 56.

Thus knowing the product and one of the factors make it easier to identify the missing factor in a multiplication sentence.

 

Finding the missing factors

5. Working out the Square of a Number

Listing squares of numbers is another useful way of understanding times tables facts.

In the example, the number 9 is multiplied by itself to give the product of 81.

To provide a visual representation of this concept, we place 9 objects in 9 groups.

Then we add the number in each group or skip count in nines.

Finding the square of a number

6. Listing the Multiples

A multiple is a number that can be divided by another number a certain number of times without a remainder.

In the example, to find the first three multiples of 8, students will skip-count by 8, or multiply 8 by 1,2, and 3 to arrive at 8, 16, and 24.

Listing multiples

Once students have concrete knowledge of multiplication facts after working with arrays, missing factors, and equal groups, only then should they memorize the times tables.

Memorization helps in faster recall of multiplication facts to solve given problems.

If you haven’t tried Boom Learning yet, you simply must!

Your students will love the interactive aspect. Besides, you have student data readily available to analyze and dictate further teaching and learning.

 

Easter Multiplication Facts Boom Cards Freebie

If you would like your students to have a better understanding of multiplication facts before they rote learn the times tables, then try this free Easter Multiplication Facts Boom Cards Deck. 

Perhaps students will find it all the more motivating, as there are Easter multiplication facts-themed visuals.

Easter Multiplication facts boom cards freebie

 

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