![]() ![]() ![]() How close to 100 did you get? You can count all the blank squares on your grid, or you can add the area of all the rectangles and subtract that value from 100. Then you roll again and continue filling your grid until you roll a rectangle that you can't fit on your page. To play, you roll a pair of dice and then construct a rectangle with those dimensions on your 10x10 grid paper. Much like MULTI, the game helps kids connect multiplication facts to another big idea, the area of a rectangle. How Close to 100? is a great game I found from Jo Boaler. Games like MULTI will help them in that journey.Īlso it's so strategically fun and interesting that I try to play it whenever I can, even with another adult.Ĭlick here to buy MULTI on Amazon (affiliate link) How Close to 100? Instead of seeing multiplication as a set of isolated math facts, your child should ideally see multiplication as a web of interconnected ideas. So if your opponent claimed 12 by placing tokens on 2 and 6, then you won't be able to get 15, since neither 2 not 6 can multiply to 15. The catch is, you can only move one token at a time. On your turn, you try to claim spaces, like the 15 space, by placing tokens on pairs of factors that multiply to it, like 5 and 3. The game helps kids not only practice their multiplication facts, but see the connections between multiplication facts with common factors. Using a twist on tic-tac-toe, MULTI helps kids think strategically about multiplication. ![]()
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