This is a fun game that challenges students to find the factors of a given product. My students are allowed to use their multiplication charts to help them until they are fluent with their multiplication facts. This game can be played as a whole class, or as a center activity with a partner.
Divide the students into groups, have one student choose a product from a container. Each group/ team works together to find all the factors of that number. All teams are given the opportunity to write down the factors and show them to the teacher. Each team that gets all the factors is allowed to move the number of yards as the chosen product.
Aligned to the 3rd Grade Common Core
3.OA.1. Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each.
3.OA.4. Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
3.OA.5. Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.
3.OA.6. Understand division as an unknown-factor problem.
3.OA.7. Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the
relationship between multiplication and division