Spiral Multiplication

I am always on the lookout for FUN ways for kids to learn their multiplication facts…and I found a new one recently!  The game Spiral Multiplication is an easy to play game with very few materials needed to play. 

You will need:  a deck of cards, 1-2 dice and game pieces (we used anything that works – last week, we used my business cards!).  How to play:  The cards are put on the floor to create a spiral and kids put their game pieces in the middle of the spiral.  The first person rolls the dice and uses the sum of the dice to multiply the first playing card.  If they answer correctly, they move one space.  If they answer incorrectly, they don’t move.  Kids had a great time playing this from the onset and started to think of new rules as they played.  How fun will it be to make up new rules for this game?  Kids can add dice in order to make the problems more difficult.  So many great things are going to come out of this new game.  I can feel it.