Learning Lab Free Reference Card
Times tables stick when a learner can rebuild a fact they forgot. Every strategy on this card starts from a fact your student already knows!
The front walks through 13 strategies in four families, in the order to teach them. The anchors come first (×0, ×1, ×2, ×5, ×10), then doubling for ×4 and ×8, then one group off for ×3, ×6, ×9, ×11, and ×12, and finally break it apart for ×7. Each strategy has a worked example in student and supportive guardian-friendly language.
The back is a fact map of all 100 facts in a mark-it-yourself times table. Each time a fact comes back quickly three days in a row, color in its square and watches the map fill up.
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I'm a licensed teacher with an M.Ed., and I designed this card for the Studio 2 Makings Learning Lab, where I teach math, reading, and STEAM through making. Print it, post it by the homework spot, and use the four five-minute routines on the back to keep practice short and steady. Teachers are welcome to print copies for their classrooms.
What's included:
- 2-page printable PDF, full color, US Letter
- 13 multiplication strategies, each with a worked example
- A 10 × 10 fact map you can color in as a progress tracker
- Four five-minute practice routines for home or class
- A teacher's note on teaching ×10 in a way that still works when decimals arrive
Grades: 2 to 5 · Format: printable PDF, 2 pages · Price: free · Store category: Free Resources · Tags: multiplication, times tables, math facts, grades 2 to 5, homeschool, parents
