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“The Investor” is a fun, real life project that teaches kids about investing their money and the basics of the stock market. Instructions and practice on how to keep track of changing prices and how to calculate profits or losses are included. Students follow the changing prices of their shares over 10 days attempting to end up with the highest profit possible. Through the project, students will need to: - Round decimals to the nearest whole dollar. - Multiply to find the value of their shares

Students can play Battleship on their own devices with this Google Slides version of the game. Choose whether to have students work on multiplication facts to 5, 9, 10, 12 or challenge them with a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 board. Give each student their own gameboard to place their boats on. They take turns shooting using coordinates (equations), answering the multiplication questions to make sure their shots strike true. The first one to sink the other player's boats wins!

Students take turns rolling dice (real or virtual), use multiplication to create an array, then try to cover as much of the grid as they can! No materials required, easy to play, and lots of multiplication fact practice. Resetting is a breeze with ctrl-z after the game is done.

This product includes multiple options for math scavenger hunts. These require no prep other than to print off and hand out the game boards. Each game board comes with answer sheets. Versions include: 4-digit place value4-digit roundingMultiplication factsDivision facts3-digit by 3-digit addition3-digit by 3-digit subtraction2-digit by 2-digit addition2-digit by 2-digit subtraction1-digit by 1-digit addition1-digit by 1-digit subtractionReview

“Made to Order” is a quick and easy game to set up in which students use dice or a deck of cards to create whole numbers, addition or multiplication equations, and order those numbers from least to greatest. It is a challenge for students to decide which number should go in which place so that they don’t find themselves with any space for their newly created number. Included are instruction pages for a variety of ways to play the game, as well as multiple versions of the student game sheet.

Stack ‘Em Up is an easy to play repeated adding game that works on reinforcing friendly numbers. Players take turns trying to make multiples of ten to earn points. At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins. Grades 4, 5 and 6 have really enjoyed playing it, and it helped a lot of students work on their friendly numbers, particularly students that struggle in math.