Grab two dice and a different colored marker for each player. The game board contains 100 squares with the products of any two numbers that can be rolled with two dice (i.e. Download your FREE copy of the game board by clicking here: Multiplication Squares Game. I find that it's easy to invest kids when I'm simply introducing a twist on a game that they're already familiar with and enjoy, so this seemed like a no-brainer.ġ. So when I was trying to come up with a new, minimal prep math center for practicing multiplication facts, I decided to try to 'mathify' the squares game.
It was such a simple game, but it was fun and it had a lot of strategy to it (I mostly played with my younger brother, so I may have particularly enjoyed the fact that I had the upper hand in the strategy). The goal was to be the person who had captured the most squares once all the dots were connected. When you drew a line that closed a square, you got to write your first initial in the square to show that you had 'captured' it. If you enter the correct answer, a green box will be stacked on the left side of the card.
Here is Quick Flash in action A flash card will pop up and you will enter the answer using the keypad. Remember the game you used to play as a kid when you got bored at restaurants? You'd make a grid of 100 (or so) dots on a napkin and each person would get to draw a line to connect 2 dots on his or her turn. After Quick Flash loads, you can select your starting fact family (Hit the back button to choose a different fact family).
