Description

Multiplying 2-digits by 2-digits or a single digit by a three or four digit number becomes fun and engaging with these challenging multiplication worksheet alternatives. These escape room style task cards are great for quick practice or review. Each of the 24 unique task card is like a single puzzle escape room or brain teaser, requiring students to think outside of the box. Some challenges are quick, requiring students to solve one multi-digit multiplication problem, while others require deductive reasoning, logic, and solving up to five multiplication problems to complete one Mini Math Mission.

Your students have been hired to work in the Mini Math Missions Department of the Mathematical Security Agency. Their job is to help field agents solve puzzles to assist them in their top secret missions. A wide variety of spy-themed challenges will have your students using their knowledge of multi-digit multiplication to find the getaway car, estimating products using place value understanding and rounding will narrow down the list of suspects, and decrypting a message and solving multiplication problems will help an undercover agent find a secret pass code.

These challenging task card missions are perfect for bellringer/warm-up activities, exit tickets, centers, early finishers, or for enrichment and test review. The more challenging missions are great for giving students the chance to collaborate to solve puzzles. Keeping students engaged is also easy as each task card includes a unique mission. These math missions provide a balance of fun and rigor.

What math skills are used?

• Multiplying two 2-digit numbers
• Multiplying a 1-digit by up to 4 digits
• Estimating a product by rounding to the nearest 10 or 100 before multiplying
• Area model multiplication (only two task cards include this skill)
• Multi-digit multiplication word problems
• Place value understanding with multi-digit multiplication
• Combine all of these skills together to solve logic puzzles, deductive reasoning challenges, and more!

What is in the PDF?

• 24 half page task cards focusing on fourth grade math standard 4.NBT.B.5
• Printable versions in color & black and white
• Link to digital Google Slides™ version (requires students to have Google Drive™)
• Printable “Training Manual” with a glossary of spy vocabulary and directions for decoding ciphers and codes
• “Top Secret” file folder decorations
• Letter from the head of the Mathematics Security Agency, M.S.A, welcoming students to their new role in the agency
• Answer key

These 4th grade multiplication task cards encourage active learning and are a quick and easy way to practice and review standards-based skills.

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