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    Multiplication & Fractions: Math You Can Play, #3
    Multiplication & Fractions: Math You Can Play, #3
    Multiplication & Fractions: Math You Can Play, #3
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    Multiplication & Fractions: Math You Can Play, #3

    By Denise Gaskins

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    Rescue your child from math phobia — by playing games!

    You'll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding multiplication and fractions.

    Help your child master the times tables and build mental math skills. Play with advanced concepts such as division, fractions, decimals, and multi-step calculations.

    Multiplication & Fractions features 25 kid-tested games, offering a variety of challenges for upper-elementary and middle school students. Chapters include:

    •    Mathematical Models: Learn to picture multiplication and fractions in a way that supports your child's comprehension.

    •    Conquer the Times Tables: Enjoy practicing the math facts until correct answers become automatic.

    •    Mixed Operations: Give mental muscles a workout with games that require number skills and logical thinking.

    •    Fractions and Decimals: Master equivalent fractions, work with decimal place value, and multiply fractions and decimal numbers.

    Math games prevent math anxiety. Games pump up your child's mental muscle, reduce the fear of failure, and generate a positive attitude toward mathematics.

    Parents can use these games to enjoy quality time with your children. Classroom teachers like them as warm-ups and learning center activities or for a relaxing review day at the end of a term. If you are a tutor or homeschooler, make games a regular feature in your lesson plans to build your students' math skills.

    So what are you waiting for? Clear off a table, grab a deck of cards, and let's play some math!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTabletop Academy Press
    Release dateNov 9, 2016
    ISBN9781892083289
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      Book preview

      Multiplication & Fractions - Denise Gaskins

      Math You Can Play Series

      Book Three

      Multiplication & Fractions

      Math Games for Tough Topics

      Second to Sixth Grade

      Denise Gaskins

      Copyright © 2016 Denise Gaskins

      All rights reserved.

      Ebook Version 1.11

      Tabletop Academy Press

      tabletopacademy.net

      Readers Love Denise’s Playful Math Books

      "These games are great for using and practicing maths skills in a context in which there is some real motivation to do so. I love how they provide opportunities to explore a wide variety of approaches, including number bonds and logical thinking.

      My children are always pleased, even excited, when I suggest one of these games. Sometimes they even ask to play them unprompted!

      —Miranda Jubb, online reader review

      It revolutionized our homeschool this year.

      —Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley, My-Little-Poppies.com

      "I have played several of these games with my son, and each one was met with delight on his part and the sharing of delightful conversation about numbers and thinking between us.

      "I love what Gaskins has to say about working with your children as opposed to simply assigning them work to do. This sums up the philosophy that I try to keep forefront in our home.

      Highly, highly recommended.

      —Amy, Hope Is the Word blog

      Wonderful games for elementary students. The author includes a link for printable game boards, ensuring that I don't spend more time making games than playing them. Variations for each game = SO many ways to explore numbers. You will love this book.

      —Marisa, online reader review

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      Want to help your kids learn math? Join my free newsletter for monthly (well, most months) activity ideas. And you’ll be among the first to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Sample Game: Times-Tac-Toe

      Preface to the Math You Can Play Series

      Section I: A Strategy for Learning

      Prof. Triangleman’s Abbreviated List of Standards for Mathematical Practice

      Introduction: How to Use This Book

      Chapter 1: Gather Your Game Supplies

      Section II: Multiplication and Fraction Games

      Chapter 2: Mathematical Models

      Chapter 3: Conquer the Times Tables

      Chapter 4: Mixed Operations

      Chapter 5: Fractions and Decimals

      Section III: Playing to Learn Math

      Chapter 6: Diagnosis: Workbook Syndrome

      Conclusion: Master the Math Facts

      Section IV: Resources and References

      About the Author

      Game-Playing Basics, From Set-Up to Endgame

      A Few of My Favorite Resources

      Quotes and Reference Links

      Copyright and Credits

      Sample Game: Times-Tac-Toe

      Math Concepts: multiplication facts, times tables.

      Players: best with two.

      Equipment: printed blank times-table chart, deck of math cards, colored markers or a set of matching tokens for each player.

      [Picture below] The Multiplication & Fraction Printables file includes blank times tables for practicing math facts up to 10 × 10 or 12 × 12. Since the edges are also blank, players can scramble the rows and columns for added challenge.

      tabletopacademy.net/free-printables

      How to Play

      Label the top row and left column of your blank times-table chart with the numbers 1–10, in numerical order or mixed around.

      On your turn, flip two cards. Multiply them and find the corresponding square on the times table. If that square is blank, write in the product with your colored marker. Or say the product aloud while you cover that square with one of your tokens. If a player writes or says the wrong answer, the other player may challenge, give the correct product, and then take that square.

      Sometimes you will have a choice of two squares, but you may mark only one of them. On the other hand, if there are no remaining spaces for your product, then you lose that turn. The first player to mark four squares touching (with no gaps) in a row — horizontally, vertically, or diagonally — wins the game.

      Variations

      For a longer game, play until someone marks five squares in a row.

      If you prefer teaching the multiplication facts up to 12 × 12, you can include face cards in your deck: jack = 11, queen = 12, and king = wild card. A player who turns up a king may use any number in its place.

      Times Table Gomoku: No math cards. Players may choose any unclaimed square and write in the product of the row and column numbers. For a tougher challenge, one player fills the top row with any numbers greater than five, and the other player chooses similar numbers for the left-column squares. As in traditional Gomoku, it takes five in a row to win.

      Hundred-Tac-Toe: Instead of a times-table chart, use a printed 100 chart. On your turn, flip one card, and you may mark any multiple of that number which has not already been taken. Say the factors of your multiple: if you draw a two, and you want to mark forty-six, say, Two times twenty-three. Whenever you get four (or more) squares in a row, mark them with a solid line. Go through the whole deck, and the player who marks the most lines wins.

      History

      People all around the world have played make-a-row games since ancient times, with a wide assortment of rules. Claudia Zaslavsky surveys the history of such games in Tic Tac Toe and Other Three-in-a-Row Games from Ancient Egypt to the Modern Computer.

      Preface to the Math You Can Play Series

      The playful, puzzle-solving side of math has always attracted me. In elementary school, calculations were a tedious chore, but word problems provided the opportunity to try out my deductive powers. High school algebra and geometry were exercises in logical reasoning, and college physics was one story problem after another — great fun!

      As my children grew, I wanted to share this sort of mathematical play with them, but the mundane busyness of everyday life kept pushing aside my good intentions. Determined to make it happen, I found a way to defeat procrastination: invite friends to bring their kids over for a math playdate. We grappled with problems, solved puzzles, and shared games. Skeptical at first, the kids soon looked forward to math club. When that gang grew up and moved on, their younger siblings came to play, and others after them. Sometimes we met weekly, sometimes monthly or just off and on. At our house, at the library, in the park — more than twenty years of playing math with kids.

      Now I’ve gathered our favorite math club games into these Math You Can Play books. They are simple to learn, easy to set up, and quick to play, so even the busiest parents can build their children’s mental math skills and promote logical thinking.

      I hope you enjoy these games as much as we have. If you have any questions, I would love to hear from you.

      —Denise Gaskins

      LetsPlayMath@gmail.com

      P.S.: If you’ve read the Math You Can Play books in order, you will notice that I repeat myself in Sections I and III. I’m including the setup information and math teaching tips in each book to make sure they can all stand on their own.

      Section I

      A Strategy for Learning

      Introduction: How to Use This Book

      Chapter 1: Gather Your Game Supplies

      Prof. Triangleman’s Abbreviated List of Standards for Mathematical Practice

      PTALSMP 1: Ask questions.

      Ask why. Ask how. Ask whether your answer is right. Ask whether it makes sense. Ask what assumptions you have made, and whether an alternate set of assumptions might be warranted. Ask what if. Ask what if not.

      PTALSMP 2: Play.

      See what happens if you carry out the computation you have in mind, even if you are not sure it’s the right one. See what happens if you do it the other way around. Try to think like someone else would think. Tweak and see what happens.

      PTALSMP 3: Argue.

      Say why you think you are right. Say why you might be wrong. Try to understand how someone else sees things, and say why you think their perspective may be valid. Do not accept what others say is so, but listen carefully to it so that you can decide whether it is.

      PTALSMP 4: Connect.

      Ask how this thing is like other things. Try your ideas out on a new problem. Ask whether and how these ideas apply to other situations. Look for similarities and differences. Seek out the boundaries and limitations of your techniques.

      —Christopher Danielson

      [Picture below] Practice applying Professor Triangleman’s Standards to the puzzle below. Which one doesn’t belong? Can you find more than one answer?

      Introduction

      How to Use This Book

      "There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no

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