Teach Classically

Have students write their own math word problems to share with friends! This is both the planning and drafting portion of the process. The box at the left cut in half is for students to appropriately draw the part-part-whole model for their equation. I then let students write their problems in a book to have friends solve. They LOVE this activity!

Use this fun activity with your multiplication unit! This helped my second graders to understand arrays, repeated addition, and the communicative property of multiplication. It's a hands-on, tasty, and visual way to get those brain juices flowing. I used Cheerios for this activity- anything larger would limit your mulitplication fact choices. ;) Here's an example: Tell your class to build the number sentence 3 x 5. The students would take 5 Cheerios and put them in a row at the top of the first

Use this blank BINGO template to allow your students to write in either math facts or phonograms of your choosing (it's more of a Connect 4 kind of deal here to lessen the amount of writing the students need to do). The possibilities of options for this game are copious. :) Be sure to have the answers written on pieces of paper so as you call them out randomly, you can put them aside to check if the student really did get a Bingo.

Here is a fun game or activity that is like a word find! Students write multiplication or division facts horizontally, vertically, or diagonally and fill in the rest of the blanks with random numbers. They switch papers with a friend to find all the answers!