Math Passports

So it's been awhile since my last post!  I hope to be more consistent...but time hasn't been my friend.  Man...teaching is a lot of work!  But I've been loving (almost) every minute of it!  School is going well!  We're busy into writing stories and publishing them.  We're starting up an awesome novel study on "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", two field trips coming up for Social Studies and Science, and then there is math.  What's so exciting about math? So here is what I've come up with: math passports.

We are working on multiplication and division facts and I wanted to do this in a fun way, rather than flashcards (as fun as they are!)

In this multiplication passport, there are 24 pages.  Two pages for every number between 1-12.  One side is a practice page.  On the practice page, students record what online multiplication games they have done from the website http://www.fun4thebrain.com/mult.html.  Once the number has been mastered, the student can choose to challenge the number.

The second page is the challenge page.  For the challenge, students meet with me and I flip through flashcards to see if the number has been mastered.  (Mastery is going through 20 flashcards in 60 seconds).
If the student wins the challenge, that passport page is stamped.

*for students who know multiplication facts well, I've challenged them to do division facts!

I hope the students enjoy this invention!  It brings a fun element into math homework!