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Multiplication Games
By L. Stoll

I teach 5th grade LD students. I have them compete against themselves when doing timed paper tests, timed oral recitation of each group of facts (I give them 1 minute to do each fact and count only the times when they better
themselves). Also, I give them 50 problems and 5 minutes to do them. I chart their progress in individual math folders. Last of all I just learned a math game with a deck of cards. It is a math version of "War.": It goes like this:
1. Divide cards evenly between two students.
2. Students each flip one card over at the same time, the first to correctly call out the answer

when the two numbers are multiplied together gets the trick.
3. If there is a tie, the person who wins the next trick gets all of the cards.
4. Jokers are zero, Aces are 1 and face cards are ten.
5. The player to take all the cards wins or whomever has the most cards after one round wins. You decide.

I have had much success with these tactics in deguising learning. The students love to learn this way and will even ask me if they can stay in from recess to practice their math facts.
Good Luck!!!!