Evelyn Christensen

There aren't many quality coloring activities for third and fourth grade math students. That is why this resource is so great! Multiplication Mosaics provides a fun twist to multiplication fact practice. The pages are timed perfectly to be completed and colored within a 15-20 minute workstation. The multiplication fact practice part of each exercise requires students to fill in the missing factor, which opens the door for connections to fact families, algebra, and division (inverse operations). Even the coloring component involves math skill by requiring students to locate a square using coordinates. (The coordinates are their answers to the multiplication practice.)… (more)

The copyright allows 100 copies per page. There are only 30 pages, so I would consider it overpriced for one child, but worth it for a family or teacher. The addition problems are of the form 3 ___ = 5 rather than the expected 3 2 = _____. I'm not sure how much speed my child is gaining on his math facts, but he does the pages without complaint or dawdling which is unusual for this child. The map skills (3 S, 4 W, etc.) are harder than the addition problems, based on my second grader who never makes a mistake on the addition part, but usually makes one or two on the map part. Because he likes them, I went ahead and bought the subtraction and multiplication ones too.… (more)