Land Grab for Multiplication

About this game:

This is the third game in the Land Grab series. Players try to capture your land by knowing multiplication facts. Role-playing is important in this game. You are royalty or a land baron and own everything: be haughty and condescending. It provides motivation. When players capture parcels of land, lament the fact that they are acquiring too much! When they point to steps near the top tell them “ Oh no that parcel has the view of the bridge, I didn’t want you to get that one”, etc. You make this activity a game vs. math problems.

Skills:

Uses: Addition (optional double digit mental math)

Develops & Uses: Skip Counting, Multiplication

NCTM Standards:

Pre-K - 2

N/A

Grades 3 - 5

1.2.1 Understand various meanings of multiplication and division.

1.2.3 Identify and use relationships between operations, such as the inverse of multiplication to solve problems.

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

2.2.3 Express mathematical relationships using equations.

6.1.0 Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving.

6.3.0 Apply and adopt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.

Grades 6 - 9

N/A

Tips & Tricks:

If you are working with a child who would benefit from practicing double-digit mental addition problems, add the following to the game. After he/she has claimed some number of parcels of land, ask them if they read the “fine print” of the contract. When they say no, explain that if they have captured land worth more than x (pick a number less than what you think will be the total) they own the entire mountain! Most often he/she will keep adding well past the limit you set. If they do, tell them you are glad to find out how much they own, because that is how much tax they will have to pay you!

Response to Intervention Tier:

1,2,3