In an earlier post, I mentioned how my oldest son asked to learn
multiplication. To encourage his love of math, I bought a
multiplication workbook and left it, along with a pencil, in the
living room. What I’ve found is when my son comes into this
frequently used room, he grabs the pencil and starts working on
multiplication. In thinking about other ways to nurture
multiplication, we started playing “Multiplcation War.” What is
Multiplication War? Well, it’s like the card game War, but
rather than using regular playing cards, we use multiplication
flash cards. Here are instructions: - Grab a set of
multiplication flash cards, or make your own by writing down the
12 Times Table. To create your own cards write down one
multiplication problem per index card. Start with 1×1 and go all
the way to 12 x 12. Note, don’t write down the answers on the
index cards. Once you’ve written down all the multiplication
problems, you should have 144 index cards. - Deal out all the
cards. Players do not look at the cards. Keep t