Multiplication Mix-Up

 Two of the kids I tutor, I teach reading and math skills to. Half an hour of math, half an hour of reading-related activities and comprehension. All at expected grade level, unless the student needs to work their way up from where they are to get to where they need to be. 

I prefer teaching reading, spelling, and grammar, as that has always been what I'm better at. So I can think of activities relating to these subjects much more easily than I can math activities, especially ones that are at least somewhat "not boring!" 😊

So I've been looking up ideas online, and as I have mentioned in previous posts, I found a website called Teachers Pay Teachers. They have a lot of free ideas, as well as sets of lessons that can be purchased. 

I just found a multiplication activity sheet for the third grader I'm tutoring. I've been focusing on multiplying with him, as that is an area he needs to grow stronger in, as well as in knowing his "skip counting," which they call it these days. When I was in school, they were called multiplication tables. 

Anyway, he's been coming along, so I think the next time I tutor him in math I will use this game sheet I printed off from Teachers Pay Teachers.  We'll probably only do a few of these problems each time I meet with him, as well as continuing to learn how to count by 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, ..... and so on. Fives are not a problem. I've been focusing on 4s and 6s, which he knows pretty well by now, so I'm teaching him the "tricks" to help you know how to count by 9s. (each number adds up to 9 as you count up, and the first column of numbers goes up one number each time, while the second column goes down a number.)

At any rate, here are some samples of how our math lessons have been going, and what to expect in the future: