The last ‘Pin’ I recreated is called the “Multiplication Squares Game”. The goal of this game is to improve and practice students’ multiplication skills. To begin, you need an activity sheet and a set of dice. The activity sheet has a bunch of dots on it to play the ‘squares game’, with numbers in the middle of the dots. The numbers represent all the possible products of multiplying the numbers of two dice together.
To perform the activity, you should split the students up into pairs and give them each a different color marker. The first student must roll the dice and multiply the numbers on the face of each die together. The student then must look for the product of their two numbers on the activity sheet and connect two of the dots around that number to form part of the square. The student who connects the fourth line to create a square gets to use their marker to color in the square. Whoever creates the most squares wins the game.
While it may seem it is just a game of luck, there is also an element of strategy. Each of the products are listed multiple times on the game board so the students must strategize where they choose to place their lines to maximize the amount of squares they complete. This encourages forward thinking and increases the ability to be able to think ahead and know how your current action may affect one in the future.
This activity may not be very beneficial for the classroom because it could become very repetitive. There are only so many possible combinations of multiplication equations with the numbers one through six, so it may not be that valuable for students. One positive, though, could be that it is easy to prepare as a quick, last minute review activity.
https://games4gains.com/blogs/teaching-ideas/multiplication-squares-game
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