Sunshine State Standard

MA.A.3.2.1

Materials

Student Materials: -2 pieces of construction paper per student -pencil or marker -scissors Teacher Materials: -1piece of notebook paper -pencil

What to do

Setting up the Gameboard: 1. Each child takes one piece of their construction paper and does the following: -Fold in half from top to bottom. -Fold again from top to bottom. -Fold in half from side to side. -fold again from side to side. Then open the paper up. They should have 16 spuares. 2. As you call out the products of sixteen multiplication facts, the sudents write those products in a different square. Keep a list for yourself of the facts that you are using that day. 3. Students should fold the second piece of paper exactly as they did the other. Using scissors, cut out the squares so that there are sixteen pieces of paper to use on their gameboard. Playing the Game: 1. Decide which kind of bingo you want to play. Some of the games we play are horizontal, vertical, diagonal, postage stamp (four in the top right hand corner), bulls eye (four in the center). Your students will come up with other ideas. 2. Using the list of sixteen multiplication facts, call out the factors only. For example 2x5. The students must know the product, find it on therir gameboard and cover it with a piece of paper. Students are not allowed to tell other students the answer. 3. Continue calling out facts until someone gets a BINGO. Be sure to mark on your master copy the facts you called so you can check your winner to see if they covered the correct products.

Additional Information

Keep a record of who wins the most games. That student could be the line leader for the day, have extra free time, be excused from math homework, etc.

Submitted by

Jean W. LaRosa

Lee County
Fort Myers, Florida
jeanwl@olsusa.com