Find the factors puzzles for practicing the multiplication tables

Here are neat puzzles to review factors in multiplication, the multiplication tables -- and consequently, the basic division facts -- all in the same "package"!

Or, just use them as cool logic puzzles. ☺

They're called Find the Factors puzzles.

This page explains how to solve them.

On this page you'll find a vast amount of them, as Excel spreadsheets:

Like the author says, "The more multiplication facts you know, the easier these puzzles become. Working on these puzzles can help you learn the multiplication table better."

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Multiplication cards with dot arrays

Some of you might like these multiplication flash cards (free printable) with DOT arrays.

I like the idea! They could be used to teach beginning multiplication with the answers intact, and later on, cover the answers for memorization/learning practice, but either way, the dots remind the student of the CONCEPT of multiplication.

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Coloring of the multiplication tables chart

Here's a different way to look at the multiplication tables chart: COLOR IT!

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You weren't bad at maths -- you just weren't looking at it the right way

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Online practice tool for the multiplication tables

This is of course NOT the best time of year to talk about multiplication tables... but it just so happens that David Chandler has made a new online TOOL or program for practicing the tables -- and he has aligned the ORDER of practicing the tables with the order I use in my books. :)

This tool also practices the tables both forwards and backwards at the same time -- which is exactly the approach I've taken in my  books and in my videos for the multiplication tables.

Practicing them both ways is so great, because it allows the students to master division facts "in disguise" at the same time.

What does it mean? For example, students not only learn the answers to 2 x 6, 3 x 6, 4 x 6, 5 x 6, etc. but also practice the missing factor problems: ___ x 6 = 12, ___ x 6 = 30, ___ x 6 = 72, ___ x 6 = 42, etc.

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