Math Multiplication Mad Minutes Activity!
- Grades
- Grades 2–5, Elementary
- Pages
- 9
- File type
- Answer key
- Included
- Subject
- Math, Multiplication and Division, Multiplication
- Topic
- multiply, multiplication
- Resource types
- Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
- Answer key
- Included
- Standards
- 3.OA.C.7
About this resource
What's inside this resource
Multiplication Mad Minutes gives students in grades 3 to 5 six one-minute fact drills. The rounds move from factors 2, 5 and 10 to 3 and 4, then 6 and 7, then 8 and 9, then a mixed round of all factors 2 to 10, and end on a challenge round of 11s and 12s plus review. Five drills have 30 facts and the mixed round has 40. On the last two drills, a column of facts is set as vertical problems.
Every drill page has a score strip for facts correct, last score and try number. A Fix-up fact card follows each round: students copy one missed or slow fact with the right answer, then write its turnaround fact. A tracker page lets students set a goal, color a bar graph across up to ten tries and record their best score on each drill.
The key runs two pages, covers all 190 facts and include a four-step routine for running a round, with scores compared only to a student's own last score. Print it in full color or in black and white.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Recall multiplication facts for factors 2 through 10 quickly and accurately within a one-minute round.
Extend fact fluency to multiplication with 11 and 12.
Use the commutative property to write the turnaround fact for a missed fact.
Teaching tips
Run each round the way the key describes: say "go," time one minute, say "stop," then have students check, score and complete the Fix-up fact.
Ask students to compare each score only with their own last score on the same Mad Minute, never with classmates.
Repeat a drill before moving to the next factor group; the score strip's last-score and try-number boxes make growth on one drill easy to see.
Skills covered
Fact fluency: students answer multiplication facts from memory against a one-minute timer, starting with grouped factors and building to mixed sets.
Turnaround facts: on each Fix-up card, students rewrite a missed fact in the other order, as in 11 × 7 = 77 and 7 × 11 = 77.
Self-checking and scoring: students mark their own work with the key and record facts correct and the try number.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Which facts are covered?
The first five drills use factors 2 through 10, and the challenge round adds facts with 11 and 12. No fact goes above 12 × 12.
How long is each round?
One minute. Students write as many answers as they can, skip any fact that stumps them, then check and score their work.
Is there an answer key?
Yes. Two key pages give the answer to every one of the 190 facts, laid out by drill, along with a short routine for running a round.
How do students track their progress?
The tracker page has a goal line, a bar graph for up to ten tries labeled by Mad Minute number, and a table for each drill's best score.
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Curriculum
Standards, concepts & topics
Standards
Standards
- 3.OA.C.7 — Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
Core concepts
Core concepts
multiplication facts
fact fluency
timed practice
commutative property
progress monitoring
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