Description
How it works
Post the square products — 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100 — and have children copy them into their boards, repeating some and skipping others. Draw a card and everyone finds and covers its square. One space per turn, no moving a chip once placed. Five in a row wins. The squares are worth isolating like this: they anchor a lot of later multiplication reasoning, and a child who knows them cold has a scaffold for the facts around them.
What you’ll need
- The printable Squares Bingo board, or a blank 5×5 grid
- Counters
- A deck with kings and jacks removed (ace = 1, queen = 0)
Skills practiced
Square products through 10×10 and quick recall in a group setting.
Grade level
3rd through 5th grade. Swap the products on the board to cover any fact group except the zeros.
Instant PDF download. Game instructions and printable boards adapted from the ideas in Math Fact Fluency by Jennifer Bay-Williams and Gina Kling (ASCD / NCTM, 2019).
