Take learning further. Propeller makes meeting National Curriculum objectives easy and provides teachers with fun and engaging learning activities for Primary Schools. Use our TES store to explore our bank of free and affordable downloads, from e-Books to worksheets to units of work.
Take learning further. Propeller makes meeting National Curriculum objectives easy and provides teachers with fun and engaging learning activities for Primary Schools. Use our TES store to explore our bank of free and affordable downloads, from e-Books to worksheets to units of work.
We’ve compiled 10 of our favourite games for tackling and mastering the Times Tables, as well as 10 blank template versions that you can use to tailor the games to the needs of your class and the varying level of abilities within it.
Every game is bright, colourful and linked to a National Curriculum objective in the form of an ‘I can’ statement. For example:
I can recall facts for the 3x table
I can recall facts for the 4x table
I can recall facts for the 8x table
I can recall facts for the 6x table
I can recall facts for the 9x table
I can recall facts for the 11x table
I can recall my times table facts up to 12 x 12
I can find common multiples of two numbers
I can multiply numbers up to 12 x 12
This e-book features an introduction page that shows all games and their associated learning objective, so you can quickly identify which game matches your lesson objectives too.
When you purchase this KS2 Games to Master Multiplication e-book you’ll receive a PDF with 10 games and 10 templates for easy-to-play games, each of which has been designed to…
Help your children develop their multiplication skills and cover National Curriculum objectives
Be a fun and interactive way of getting young minds to master key mathematical skills
Easy to use with clear instructions of how to play printed on every game (apart from the blank templates, where you can make up your own instructions!)
Usable by both teachers and teaching assistants, as well as by parents at home
We’ve compiled 10 of our favourite games for tackling and mastering the Times Tables, as well as 10 blank template versions that you can use to tailor the games to the needs of your class and the varying level of abilities within it.
Every game is bright, colourful and linked to a National Curriculum objective in the form of an ‘I can’ statement. For example:
I can count on and back in steps of 10
I can count on and back in steps of 10 from any number
I can work out and recall the facts of the 2x table
I can work out and recall the facts of the 5x table
I can work out quick multiplication facts for the 2x, 5x and 10x tables
This e-book feature an introduction page that shows all games and their associated learning objective, so you can quickly identify which game matches your lesson objectives too.
When you purchase this KS1 Games to Master Multiplication e-book you’ll receive a PDF with 10 games and 10 templates for easy-to-play games, each of which has been designed to…
Help your children develop their multiplication skills and cover National Curriculum objectives
Be a fun and interactive way of getting young minds to master key mathematical skills
Easy to use with clear instructions of how to play printed on every game (apart from the blank templates, where you can make up your own instructions!)
Usable by both teachers and teaching assistants, as well as by parents at home
Set of Loop Cards from 2x to 12x for cutting out and using. Leave children to work out the answers, make it a timed trial, or use them as a lesson starter or plenary after a multiplication topic.
These loop cards are brightly coloured and can be laminated for longevity.
Get students thinking about multiplication and numbers in a different way. Each Multiplication Mastery Board asks students to show a calculation and then…
Record it as a repeated addition
Show in equal groups
Create the array
Tell a story about it
Each Multiplication Board is colourful and is great for using to make a Mastery Bank for the different Times Tables.
Can students find the target number? This pack includes a 2x table grid and a series of questions for students to answer, and see if they can find the answer on the target board.
This pack also includes a blank, interactive PDF Target Board that you can type your own numbers into, and then have students either answer your questions, or come up with their own once they’ve seen the chosen numbers.
Why not use the interactive PDF infront of the class and have students have a say on what numbers to use.
Get the brains of your students whirring with these Mastery focused Mutliplication Questions. This pack contains 3 posters covering the times tables from 1x1 to 12x12 asking:
Always, Sometimes or Never?
What do you notice?
What is the Same? What is Different?
Can students make their own posters using A3 paper and coloured pens to show off their times tables knowledge?
Can they make a poster of things that are always the same, sometimes the same, or never the same?
Use these posters as brain teasers, warm ups, or inspiration for a creative maths lesson.
Bundle of games and display posters covering Factors, Multiples and Primes.
Factor Fifty Game
Player use numbers up to 50 on a 1-50 grid and have to cover a chosen number with a counter. Once a number is covered, they must cover as many factors of that number as possible too. The winner has the most counters on the board at the end of the game!
Factor Challenge
Challenge students to find the factors of 10 consecutive numbers in a row - make this game easier or harder by changing the 10 consecutive numbers.
Factors, Multiples and Primes
A4 poster showing how Factors can be shown with arrays and Cuisenaire rods, and how to identify prime numbers in the same way. What does a number with lots of factors look like next to a prime number?
Factors
A4 poster showing the difference between a factor and a multiple with visual representations - can your class make their own colourful factors and multiples pictures?
Challenge your class to make their own skyline, full of tall buildings and tower blocks, and turn each building into an array with the windows. This A4 lesson prompt will help you think about which questions to ask and how to structure the activities.
For example…
Which number has an odd number of arrays?
Which number has even?
Which number has the most amount of arrays to be made?
Can you colour code all of your arrays?
A4 poster of example ‘real life’ arrays, including water bottles for 4 x 6, donuts for 3 x 4 and legos for 2 x 6 and many more.
Use this poster as a starting point for getting students to find their own ‘real life’ arrays in the classroom, outside, or at home.
Pack of Multiplication Games, including:
Hit the Target
Race to Arrays
Beat the Square, and
Multiplication League
These games cover key multiplication National Curriculum objectives in a fun and interactive way, and each game has clear instructions on how to play and what is needed printed on the sheet.
Hit the Target game also includes a blank template for complete customisation of the game, helping you to differentiate to meet the many needs and skills in your classroom.
An A3 poster of Models and Images showing real life examples of the 2 x table. Great for classroom displays, or for using as inspiration to get students to make their own ‘real life example’ posters of other times tables.
Pack of 6 posters showing the National Curriculum objectives for Multiplication in Years 1 - 6. Great for sharing with students and parents, or for keeping to tick off each objective as it is covered in lessons.
Two Venn Diagram templates on A4, landscape. One features a 2-way Venn Diagram and the other a 3-way Venn Diagram. Great for use in any subject when you need to compare and differentiate, but ideal for use in Maths and Science.
Series of A4 posters showing a variety of examples of:
Equilateral Triangles
Irregular Pentagons
Oblongs
Quadrilaterals
Rhombuses
Squares
In bright and colourful ways. Ideal for classroom displays, or for cutting up and using when exploring shape.
Three A4 multiplication grids left blank for students to fill in the answers - except there’s a twist! One grid has the columns mixed up, one has the rows mixed up, and the other has both!
Test students’ multiplication and times tables knowledge by getting them to fill in the grids, either against the clock, competitively, or at their own pace alone or in pairs.
A4 landscape worksheet encouraging students to decide whether numbers are odd and even.
Includes single-digit numbers, 2-digit numbers and 3-digit numbers too, from 9 to 699.
This bundle includes:
Number Line Showing Halves and Mixed Numbers
Number Line Showing Quarters and Mixed Numbers
Number Line Showing Thirds and Mixed Numbers
Perfect resources for forming part of your fractions, decimals and percentages working wall or display.
This bundle of Number Lines features one sheet per negative number line of:
-5 to 5
-10 to 10
-20 to 20
-50 to 50, and
-100 to 100
Each number line is brightly coloured and features positive numbers in purple, neutral numbers in green, and negative numbers in pink.
A set of Multiplication Pattern A4 sheets, covering 2x tables to 12x tables.
Tables up to 9x are plotted on a 100 Square, and…
9x is plotted on a 110 to show full patterns up to 9 x 12
10x is plotted on a 120 to show full patterns up to 10 x 12
11x is plotted up a 140 to show full patterns up to 11 x 12
12x is plotted on a 150 to show full patterns up to 12 x 12
These brightly coloured squares are ideal for displays and for using as reference points for multiplication/times tables.
Sheets showing individual grids of the times tables from 2 up to 12, each showing up to 12 x each number.
Use on display or cut out individually for students to keep as a reference material.