Many teachers will know that some students just don't GET putting the tens digit up top. They experience number dissociation - they lose the plot that this tens digit belongs with this ones digit. If this is all too familiar to you, your students will be relieved by this method.
Students learn to put the tens digit up-top. Build a ton of confidence with that too, so students are in excellent shape for moving on to the standard algorithm for long multiplication.
You can choose from addition, subtraction, multiplication or division games. Get 5 math problems correct in a row to take foul shots with the basketball.
This tablet-friendly game gets students to choose Addition/Subtraction or Multiplication/Division. Students then make 4 different equations with the 3 numbers provided.