Merry's Gecko Roundup

About this game:

When you are looking for a non-traditional pet (or lots of them), let us recommend a gecko! These feisty little lizards from tropical climates are perfectly comfortable in homes and crawl up vertical surfaces with ease and can even scramble across ceilings. They locate each other by making chirping sounds (that sounds like “gecko”). And even geckos know everything is better with a best friend! Using the commutative property players locate best friends and develop fluency in multiplication facts at the same time.

Skills:

Develops: Number Sense (Commutative Property of Multiplication), Problem Solving

Develops & Uses: Multiplication

NCTM Standards:

Pre-K - 2

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Grades 3 - 5

1.2.1 Understand various meanings of multiplication and division.

1.2.2 Understand effects of multiplying and dividing whole numbers.

1.2.4 Understand and use properties of operations such as the distributivity of multiplication over addition.

1.3.2 Develop fluency in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing whole numbers.

2.2.1 Identify properties such as commutativity, associativity and distributivity and use them to compute with whole numbers.

2.2.3 Express mathematical relationships using equations.

6.1.0 Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving.

Grades 6 - 9

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Tips & Tricks:

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Response to Intervention Tier:

1,2