Numerous websites provide free games to help students review their division skills. Arcademic Skill Builders (arcademicskillbuilders.com) offers Division Derby and Drag Race, two multiplayer games where students race to solve division problems and reach the finish line. Tug Team Pony Pull places multiple players on teams where they must correctly answer division problems to attempt and pull the other team over the line in a game of virtual tug-of-war. Cool Math 4 Kids (coolmath4kids.com) allows students to play the Number Monster for Long Division, which provides them with a division problem at one of five difficulty levels (medium to monster). If students answer incorrectly, they are provided with the correct answer.
Cool Math (coolmath-games.com) contains multiplication games, including Math Lines 12 X Factor, where students must shoot numbered marbles at numbered marbles in the line that, when combined make the desired product. For example, if students play the game to find the product 12, a student would shoot a marble with the number three at a marble with the number four. Arcademic Skill Builders also offers multiplication games, including the multiplayer games Grand Prix Multiplication and Penguin Jump where students race to the finish line while solving multiplication problems at varying levels of difficulty. Meteor Multiplication is a single player game where students must fire at a meteor containing the correct answer to the problem provided.
Team games allow students to work together to practice their multiplication and division skills. Utilize the school gym and set up a team of students around a basketball hoop. Play a modified version of Around the World where each team member must answer a multiplication or division problem for a chance to shoot a basket. Divide the class into two or three teams and have each team make a single-file line leading up to the board. Players from each team go head to head and solve multiplication or division problems on the board. Award a point for the first team to get the correct answer for each problem.
Timed games help students build confidence in their multiplication and division skills. Give students a sheet of multiplication or division problems and set a timer for one minute. Have students individually race to see how many problems they can solve in that time. Give prizes to students who solve the most problems correctly. Create an obstacle course in a large classroom or outside and attach multiplication or division problems to each task. Time students as they complete the obstacle course and solve the problems. For example, have a student run through a line of tires, correctly solving a problem at each tire.
Adapt common games to include multiplication and division. Create bingo cards with the products of multiplication problems. Call out a multiplication problem and have students mark the square containing the product with a coin. Award a prize to students who are the first to get four or five products in a row. Play a game similar to the popular card game War. Instead of playing one card at a time, students will play two cards at a time. The student whose cards have a higher product when multiplied wins the cards. Set values for the face cards.