Mary's been learning multiplication this year in school. She started just a bit at the end of 2nd grade so we worked on them during the summer as well. Her math teachers this year had them all make flashcards to work on the stuff at home. Of course they were plain and boring because they were just written in pencil on plain index cards. (I certainly don't blame her teachers. They have enough to do without making fancy flashcards for everyone.) It was torture to get her to do them several times every day. So I had to come up with an alternate plan.
I looked all over the internet for some fancy flash card ideas, but I couldn't find anything I really liked. So here's what I came up with.
I cut up sheets of different colors of construction paper and wrote the problem on the front in different colors of marker and the answer on the back and then I laminated them.
Then I stick them to the wall with blue painter's tape. Then as she does each one she pulls it off the wall and throws it on the floor. Sometimes I make patterns on the first set, but on the other sets I usually just put them back however I happen to pick them up. Frequently I time her to keep her on task.
The first part of the year they worked on 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and 10s. Then they went worked on fractions and geometry stuff for a while. She got pretty good at this and could do a whole set of all of them in 2 minutes.
After Christmas break they're moving on to the rest of them.
Apparently she made them look so fun Alex wanted to get in on the action. Since he's in kindergarten and learning to read we decided to go with word flashcards for him. Mary made a lot of them for him.
He loves rhyming words so we usually make them up in sets.
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