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Multi-Digit Multiplication Math Centers Math Tiles

5.0 (363 reviews)

Provide students with an engaging, hands-on math center for multi-digit multiplication practice. Students place number tiles 0–9 to complete the stacked multiplication problems. The digits already shown in the factors, partial products, and final product help students decide what fits.

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Math
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71
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Teaching duration
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Description

Provide students with an engaging, hands-on math center for multi-digit multiplication practice. Students place number tiles 0–9 to complete the stacked multiplication problems. The digits already shown in the factors, partial products, and final product help students decide what fits.

Why use Math Tiles?

  • Make problem solving hands-on by letting students move number tiles and test their ideas.
  • Build flexible thinking as students follow different clues and try more than one strategy.
  • Practice perseverance and build confidence by revising a choice when the first idea doesn’t fit.
  • Give students meaningful independent practice or have partners explain and compare their thinking.
  • Save paper by reusing printed cards and having students record their answers on a separate sheet.

What’s included

  • 30 printable puzzle cards
  • Google Slides version with movable number tiles
  • Student recording sheet
  • Answer keys
  • Teacher setup tips
  • Printable 0–9 number tiles

How to use it

Use a card after a multiplication lesson and have partners explain how they checked their completed work. For print, cut out the included number tiles or use a set you already have. In Google Slides, students move the tiles in edit mode.

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5th Grade Daily MATH and GRAMMAR Spiral Review Bundle Test Prep
Abigail S.

My daughter did not enjoy this at all. We normally always start out in the morning with some worksheets. In this case there were many things that were thrown at her that had little to no explanation and some were completely new to her. I ended up deleting the file since we never use it now. I really thought this would be a good course for us.

Teacher Thrive

<p>Hello, Abigail. Did you see the detailed teaching notes and grammar student handbook included in the resource? Hopefully those tools help explain the concepts.</p>

3rd Grade Daily Math Spiral Review [DIGITAL]
Laura K.

I was excited about this resource. But NOTHING about it has been easy. I don't believe the positive reviews, unless they are not using them daily, or they did not mind adjusting the settings on 144 forms because the settings are ridiculous.

1) "We don't use any student identifiers..." That is the DUMBEST thing I have heard of. Did I miss something and teachers have stopped asking their students to write their names on their papers because we don't need to identify whose work is whose anymore?? As of now, when 20 kids finish a form, you have NO idea who's response is whose. No joke. What the actual heck? So plan on opening 144 forms and setting EVERY ONE to collect email addresses (or whatever you prefer, but that's the easiest for my students).

2) To create the forms, you have to click on an individual link, click make a copy, and then you have the word "copy of" in front of every form. There are lots of better ways the seller could have gone about this with a little research.

3) When I make a form, I try to get the total to be out of 100 points, so that every score is consistent and means something to my students (<70, needs to ask for help from me, 100=all correct, etc.). Every purchased form I've bought has been out of 100 points. These forms are all out of different numbers-8, 16, 22, etc. There is no consistency throughout the week, no way for students to compare scores, and their scores don't means ANYTHING to them or me if I don't have a calculator handy. Just DO BETTER.

4) The other settings are GARBAGE too. Students cannot see the questions that they missed. What kind of teacher doesn't want students to see what they got wrong? I normally DON'T want my students to see correct answers, because I want them to be able to go back and try to find their errors and correct them themselves, BUT on a DAILY SPIRAL, when time is short and they may/may not have been introduced to the topic, I find that student learn a LOT form seeing the correct answer. This setting was also unchecked.

5) There is no logical order to the review questions. There are not models to help compare fractions mid year, just 2 fractions and students are asked to compare. Maybe some schools in Texas teach things in different orders, but we don't teach fractions that early, but they sure as heck could be reviewing place value or multi-step addition/subtraction problems.

If I were selling a product and knew there were 144 individual forms, I would have done the work myself, and given options: This link will give you forms with these settings; This link= these settings...etc. To say that teachers can "easily" change the settings is ridiculous. It is TEDIOUS, easy to miss an important setting like collect EMAILS, and THAT'S WHY I PAID YOU. I should have realized there were teachers out there that don't think about the "little things" and read the fine print or comments before buying.

I WOULD NOT BUY AGAIN for the hassle of making these work.

Questions & Answers (5)

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Jessica Cansler

Would you ever consider making a bundle of all of these math tile centers?

Teacher Thrive

We no longer offer this bundle on TpT because it became too difficult to manage, and teachers didn't get instant access to their purchases. We were able to automate the build-your-own-bundle process in our off-site store, which makes the process a lot easier for teachers and us. If you’d like to receive a discount on multiple math tiles, you can visit https://teacherthrive.com/byob

Melissa K.

I have tried printing this for my students, but unfortunately the file is too large. I've even tried only printing custom pages. Is there another solution I could try?

Teacher Thrive

Some PDFs with a lot of graphics may look fine on your screen, but may not print out correctly.

Open the PDF file with Adobe Acrobat Reader
Click “Print”
Click on “Advanced”
Check the “Print as Image” box
Print the document

If you are still having issues, please contact TpT so they can troubleshoot this with you directly. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Contact

Alex Parr

This is probably a really dumb question, but is there only one right answer for some of these? Or are there multiple choices for some of them, especially the addition and subtraction problems?
Thanks so much! This is such a cool resource!

Alexa

Teacher Thrive

Hi Alexa! There can be some slight variations to some of the sets as far as answers go. However, some topics only have one correct answer.

Pursue the EXTRAordinary

Are all the sheets in this bundle 3 digit x 2 digit? (My students only need to go up to 2 digit x 2 digit.)
Thanks!
- Andrea

Teacher Thrive

They are all 3 x 2:-(. However, I will definitely be making a version that is 2 x 2 later this fall

Sarah F.

I'm interested in the product but I am curious if it includes Multiplying a 1 Digit number by 3 and 4 Digits as well? I know some of my students are struggling with that concept too.

Thank you! This looks awesome.

Teacher Thrive

Hi Sarah! Unfortunately, all of the problems are multiplying by 2-digit factors. Thank you for your interest, though. I will look into making a set with two problems on one card that only multiplies by a 1-digit number!

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