Use these clever ideas for ways to use hundred squares to teach math skills including hundred square addition, subtraction and multiplication activities.
Math lessons using hundred squares
A hundred square is a visual resource that can be used in many ways to help children practice skills and see mathematical patterns.
You’ll find a set of hundred squares in the Printables section of our Fun Math curriculum: both a version with numbers and a blank version. Print as many as you need so each child can have several versions to use and colour in.
Your children can stick one into their book and have a card/laminated version on their desk, as references.
You can also make large-scale hundred squares to stick up on the wall, use on a tabletop, the floor and even outdoors.
You can buy waterproof versions for use outside or make your own with fabric pens on a bedsheet or piece of fabric.
You can even use chalk or paint to add one to the floor of your yard.
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How to use a hundred square
Children can use a hundred square with coloured pencils that they can use to colour in squares or with small counters that they can use to cover over the numbers within the squares.
Use pencils rather than pens so you can still read the numbers underneath.
They can have several squares to use, to colour different patterns. You can play a wide variety of games using the hundred square. You’ll find many ideas for using hundred squares in Fun Math Volume Two: Numbers, Counting and Place Value and Fun Math Volume Three: Arithmetic.
Here are some suggestions for arithmetic.
Addition and subtraction activities
:: place a counter at 1. Roll a die and say the number. Count on that many squares.
Keep rolling and counting on until you make it all the way to 100.
Or reverse this to work on subtraction, counting down from 100 to 1.
:: count up in tens. For example, colour in 3. Count on ten to get to 13 and colour that square in. Add another ten to get to 23 and colour that square in. Add another ten to get to 33, and so on.
What pattern do you see? You have created a column.
How can use this as a shortcut so you don’t always have to manually count on ten places then you want to add ten to a number?
Try the same exercise starting from 5 or 7 or 9…
:: find pairs of numbers that add up to 100 (for example 36 and 64). Colour them in.
How many pairs can you find in the hundred square?
Use a different colour / pattern to fill each pair of squares.
Which numbers don’t have a partner?
Multiplication activities
:: colour or cover all the multiples of 3. What patterns do you see?
Can you predict which number you will colour after 36? After that? After that?
:: colour in each times table sequence as you learn them.
:: colour all the multiples of 3 in blue.
Colour all the multiples of 4 in yellow.
Which numbers have you coloured in twice and turned green?
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