Animultiplication Rally

...is a multiplication game for quarantined kids to practices their times tables (up to 10x10). It’s free!

This is a good exercise for multiplication drill but there’s no real “skill ladder” built in for kids to naturally progress through. Which is to say: this will work better as practice and reinforcement than it will as a first exposure.

Rules and PDF download link are below. If you need a single-digit addition drill game, check out DiceRally 2020.

Animultiplication

Animultiplication

How To Play

  1. Download the PDF and print it.

  2. Get a regular pack of cards; set the Jacks, Queens and Kings aside so that the deck only contains the cards Ace through 10. Shuffle that deck.

  3. A kid draws two cards; the multiply the face values. Put those cards into a discard pile (shuffle the discards into a new deck when the draw pile runs out).

  4. Find the animal corresponding to the product (each animal has two numbers) and fill in the next box in that lane.

  5. Repeat until an animal reaches the finish line (or you can play until third place is decided; that's what we do)

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It makes it more engaging for everyone to pick an animal or two to "root" for. As opposed to DiceRally 2020, the chances are much more even here. It’s any animal’s game!

What Does This Teach?

Apart from practice with times tables, this is also an opportunity to explore factors. As a child plays, ask them about the numbers they are arriving at. How many other ways could they generate 16? What about 15? What about 36?

Cool animals are from kenney.nl. Font is Cabrito. Animultiplication Rally is released under Attribution-NonCommercial creative commons.