The Strange Flowers

The perfect place to begin your journey towards multiplication. In this initial warm up, students are presented with an Alice in Wonderland type story to inspire them to think about different ways to count.

This warm up pairs great with our activity: My Flower Patch.

My Flower Patch

In this activity, students explore the idea of skip counting by designing their own unique flower patch where the flowers count based on their number petals.

My Flower Patch is a great activity to follow The Strange Flowers warm up.

The Whisper Game

Build a strong foundation for multiplication with skip counting! The Whisper Game is a great warm up activity to provide students practice with graduated levels of difficulty building fluency and confidence.

The Maze

Can you help our kitten gather all its supplies by navigating through 9 mazes? This digital game is great for students working on their skip counting skills as well as review or spiraling. With multiple levels of difficulty, they will have fun navigating to the correct path while building a strong foundation for multiplication.

The Skip Counting Table

Ready for a confidence booster? This activity is designed for young students with no experience multiplying. Using the traditional multiplication table and their skip counting skills, they will be amazed how many products they can determine before even knowing what a product is!

Sticker Sheets

In this warm up, students gain number sense as they identify the patterns found by grouping 2's, 3's, and 5's. This begins to build an intuitive understanding of prime numbers, develop problem solving skills and help students build a foundation for multiplying by 4, 6, 8, 9, and 10.

The Whisper Game (Part 2)

Revisit The Whisper Game to help students build fluency in skip counting by new values. In this activity, we focus on skip-skip counting to continue to support student number sense and the patterns within values while also building on their existing understanding to grow their abilities.

Skip Count Pop!

This game is a ton of fun! Players pop bubbles to practice skip counting helping students to develop their ability to identify multiples of larger values. Skip counting by smaller values is more challenging as there are more bubbles to keep track of.

BUZZ

Whether just learning to skip count or already a multiplication pro, BUZZ is always a blast to play. Around the dinner table, in the classroom, or in the car, students can practice their skip counting and identification of multiples strengthening their mathematical foundation with lots of fun and laughter.

A Riddle

This warm up is ideal for students who are comfortable with skip counting and ready to begin transitioning to multiplication. In this riddle, students determine a hidden code to identify how their skip counting skills can be used to find a total. We recommend this activity is used as an introduction to dual processing.

Magic Trick

What's cooler than magic? Math! -Spiderman
While math is pretty cool, this activity presents multiplication as an amazing magical skill students will be eager to learn. Show off your multiplication abilities as you amaze students and get them excited about finding products.

Fingers

Dual Processing can be difficult. In this digital game, students build their ability to both skip count and tally how many simultaneously. The computer aids are great for beginning learners and the gamification elements increase interest and engagement. This article also provides instructions for an in-person alternative.

The Beat

Add some music to your lesson while helping students intuitively understand multiples! In this activity, students count to the beat to make observations on what numbers appear in different skip counting patterns.

Bid A Win

Let's get moving! In this activity, students explore multiples and skip counting in an engaging game of steps. Players bid on the fewest equally-sized steps they can take to hit the target distance. Students will be having so much fun, they might just forget they are learning to multiply!

Guess My Number

In this warm up, students solve riddles to identify a hidden number. This is a great activity for students who can skip count but are not yet multiplying as they make connections between multiple skip counting patterns.

Counting by 7's

In this activity students learn they can complete a skip counting table without knowing how to skip count by 7's! Introducing the idea of the commutative property, students explore how they can find multiples using various patterns and number relationships.

Turn Around

Move to discover commutativity! In this activity students use movement and skip counting to "prove" the commutative property of multiplication while also developing their own strategies and preferences for multiplication.

Hide and Seek

PLAY THIS GAME! With multiple levels, Hide and Seek allows students to play with a multiplication table going from skip counting to finding products all while having a blast. This is a great activity as students transition to multiplying and excellent for students working on building fluency.

Multiples

This warm up is designed to introduce students to the word "multiples". We provide new language in ways that help students intuitively grasp the concept and follow up with a fun (and quick!) game that can be used again and again to help students build their understanding of multiples.

Squares

In this activity, students are introduced to perfect squares. By exploring their skip counting table, students identify the numbers along the diagonal while also connecting skip counting to the number of squares on the multiplication table.