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Play multiplication war, a fun card game, with your child and before long those annoying multiplication facts will be part of her mathematical skill set. Besides strengthening multiplication skills, mulitplication war also provides practice in comparing numbers.
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What You Need:
- Deck of cards
- A kitchen timer
What You Do:
- Shuffle the deck of cards and deal them face down, giving each player an equal number of cards until the deck runs out. Each player keeps his cards in a stack. Assign picture cards, such as jacks, queens, and kings, a value of 10. Give aces a value of either 11 or 1.
- Demonstrate to your child how to play the game: Each player turns two cards face up, reads the number sentence and supplies the answer. For example, if your child draws a 5 and a 4, he says 5 x 4 = 20. If you draw a 7 and an 8, then your number sentence is 7 x 8 = 56. Because your product is larger, you win the four cards and you put them at the bottom of your pile.
- If each of you has a number sentence with the same product, then it's war! Each player puts four cards face down and turns up two of them. The player with the largest product wins the eight cards.
- Set up the timer and play the game for 10 to 15 minutes. When the bell goes off, each player counts his cards. The player with the most cards wins. If one player runs out of cards before time is up, then the other player wins.
- Say no to boring "drill and kill". Get your game on! Multiplication Math War is an enjoyable way to spend time with your child while strengthening his math skills.
Guided Lesson: Multiplication 1
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Third grade is the year of multiplication. Though it was most likely introduced to kids in second grade, third grade is when kids are tasked with mastering their times tables and developing a stronger understanding of this key operation. This guided lesson in understanding multiplication can help give third graders a leg up. For even more practice, consider downloading the recommended multiplication worksheets that accompany the lesson.
Third grade is the year of multiplication.
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Game: Skip Counting at the Zoo

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication and Equal Groups

Exercise: Multiplication and Repeated Addition

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication with Skip-Counting

Game: Candy Shop Arrays

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication and Arrays

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication and the Commutative Property

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication Using a Number Line

Game: Pool Creation: Area Models

Exercise: One-Digit Multiplication with Area Models

Exercise: Relating Area to Addition and Multiplication

Exercise: Multiply by 1

Exercise: Multiply by 2

Exercise: Multiply by 10
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