Multiplication Tables: Can you beat your time? (May 2-6)

What do all Mathletes have in common? They exhibit such a positive competitive spirit that they can't wait to beat their time on any activity. 

Each group worked together as a team to complete the wooden multiplication table I created for my children when my oldest was five years old. They were not very interested in their first time.  They only wanted to improve on their time each subsequent attempt. No surprise, they improved significantly each try. Some groups even beat their previous time by 50%. Their collaboration strategies were brilliant: some focused on how to orgainize the pieces in order; others focused on communication; and others on a strategy of filling in the two rows and columns for the first multiplier and then continuing with the next multiplier.

After the team effort, they worked individually on their 12x12 multiplication tables and recorded their time.  I would love for them to continue to practice the 12 x 12 tables and time themselves to see if they can maintain improvement each time. 

Finally, I created many other multiplication table challenges including a prime number table, power of two table (great patterns in this one), even numbers table, 15x15 table, and 20x20 table. See the attached pdf and answers.

Work your Mathlete hard this week to ensure that multiplication tables become second nature. The K and 1st graders used tennis balls to look at multiplication as creating rectangles. You can use chocolate kisses, pennies, etc.