Students will test their luck with bingo while improving their division skills in this game. Ask students to make their own bingo card by writing the word on the top of the page with a five-by-five grid of boxes below it. Have them fill in each of these boxes with numbers of their choice. On the classroom board, write a division problem, such as "20 divided by 4." Students then must solve this problem to see if they have that number on their card. If they do, they should cross it off. The first to get a line wins. Progress to harder math problems by asking the students to think of numbers between 1 and 100, or 1 and 500, and ask questions such as "999 divided by 3."
Put a twist on working with flashcards by incorporating the whole classroom in this game. Start by dividing the class into two teams. Invite two people from each team to come to the front of the classroom. Hold up a flash card with a division problem for the students to solve. The person who says the correct answer first wins the round and gets to decide if she wants to send someone from the other team to "jail" or free one of her teammates. The first team to have everyone in jail loses.
Turn the classic game of "Go Fish" into a division lesson by incorporating a few variations on the rules. Divide students into small groups, each with their own deck of cards. Give each player five cards from the deck and place the rest face down. From here, a player asks an opponent if he has a specific card that he wants to match with one of his own. However, instead of just asking "Do you have a 4?", the student must pose it as a division question, such as "Do you have a 12 divided by 3?" The other player must then solve the problem and hand over any 4s he might have. If he doesn't have a 4, for example, he can tell the other player to "Go fish" and to take a new card from the pile. The player who matches all of his cards first wins.
This game help students learn division while giving them an opportunity to move around. Divide the class into groups of three to five students. Invite each group to come to the edge of the carpet or an open space in the classroom. Read a division problem or write it on the board. The student to first answer it can then hop that many spaces forward. For example, if the question is "16 divided by 4," the student to first get the answer right can hop four spaces forward. The first student to reach the finish line wins.