How Do You Teach Multiplication Playing Showdown?
This card game is played with the entire class. Students love the challenge of trying to beat the time of another player. The entire class gets involved in this fast paced game and everyone gets great math practice in multiplaction. Remove the jokers and shuffle a deck of cards. Two players stand in front of the class, back to back. The teacher shows the class one card and places it on the forehead of one player. The teacher shows the class a second card and places it on the forehead of the second player. When the teacher says, “What’s the answer?” the students in the class say the answer to the multiplication problem created by the two cards. When the teacher says, “Showdown,” the two players turn around and face each other. They can see the other person’s card, but not their own. They must guess what card is on their forehead by figuring out the math problem. The first player to say the correct answer stays up to face the next opponent. The goal is to stay up for as many rounds as po
