Throughout third grade, your students will learn many different math concepts. But, the most important thing they will be learning is multiplication.
There are a variety of multiplication fluency activities that can help your students master their facts!
Remember, building multiplication fact fluency in third grade is crucial to students being able to have success with math in later grades.
While there are so many math concepts being taught during third grade, it is important to continuously practice multiplication facts with your students throughout the entire school year.
Here are some multiplication fluency activities:
Interactive Notebook Pages
Students love to have flaps and use interactive notebooks. You can have your students write down products, equations, or even describe the different properties.
Hands-On Practice
Multiplication Number Lines are a fun way for students to practice their facts.
This resource includes 48 cards and response sheets for students to practice their multiples.
It also has regular multiple number lines that you can print and put on a ring for students to practice!
This is a great intervention tool! Check it out here.
Multiplication Charts
Teaching students how to use a multiplication chart can help them recognize patterns in multiplication.
You can utilize blank multiplication charts during your lessons, as well as multiplication charts that are missing numbers.
This allows students to practice their facts while they fill in the missing boxes. Check out this multiplication chart resource.
Digital Games
Digital Math games are a fun, self-checking way to practice multiplication facts.
In these games, students have an answer sheet where they record whether or not they got the problem correct.
You can check out my 3rd Grade Digital Math Game bundle here.)
This is a really fun self-checking multiplication fact fluency game. Your students can play this game in Google Slides.
They will click and drag the flashlight over the box to reveal the correct answer. This allows them to have immediate feedback!
Centers and Other Games
War is a super fun game to play with students as you practice multiplication. Just use multiplication flashcards to play.
>>Grab some flashcards in the free download at the end of this post.<<
All of my 3rd Grade Guided Math units include fun hands-on activities for students to practice standards.
Practice Understanding Related Multiplication and Division Facts
Part of developing fact fluency is for students to understand how multiplication and division are related. You can do this by practicing fact families, as well as identifying which multiplication equation you can think of when solving a division equation.
Here are two interactive math tools that you can use to practice these skills!
Fact Fluency Friday! Create a Routine for Practicing and Assessing Facts
I think it is very important to regularly time your students and have them take a fluency test.
In my classroom, students take a fluency test every Friday morning after multiplication is introduced. They don’t compete against each other, just themselves.
You can use printable mastery badges and give them to students after they master each set of facts.
Or, use these fun punch cards and mastery bracelets as your student master their multiplication facts!
Grab them here!
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