Five multiplication crosswords. Each equation fills five boxes, like 4 × 6 = 24, and runs across or down. Where two equations cross they share a number box, so the number written there has to work in both. Every equation has one or two empty boxes: start with one that has a single empty box, then use its answer in the equation that crosses it. Page 1 opens with a worked example, and the later pages have more equations that wait on a crossing answer. Some empty boxes are products and some are missing factors, which students find with a division fact. Factors run from 2 to 10, products stay at 50 or below, and there is exactly one way to fill each puzzle.
Work the example on page 1 together and point at the shared box: the 6 is the product of one equation and a factor of the next. Before the harder pages, practice turning a missing factor into division: __ × 7 = 42 asks what 42 ÷ 7 is. Partners can race to find the equation that has to be solved first.
Ask your child to read each finished equation aloud, across and down, to check that it is true. For a missing factor, ask how many groups of the other number make the product.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Multiplication crosswords where equations run across and down and share a number where they cross. Students fill in missing products and factors, with factors 2 to 10 and products up to 50, using one answer to solve the next.
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