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organization || Printable Battleship Math game for learning multiplication

IoanaApril 5, 2018

This game is such a fun way to practice the multiplication table for students in elementary school! It’s essentially battleship, with a math-twist. I’ve included a printable and instructions below.


Taking a break to play a math game is my favourite way to get my students engaged and motivated after some hard work. Plus, every three games won equals a prize from my awesome box of goodies, so it always gets them excited too!

I often check up on a blog called Relentlessly Fun, Deceptively Educational run by a mother of two who shares tons of the games and resources she makes for her children. This battleship game was inspired by her post about a battleship game for practicing multiplication or addition. I decided to create my own printables though so that I could fold it like a game board, insert them in sheet protectors, and re-use the game boards.

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Note: the game takes a while to play. The first time I played I’d printed out a grid that was 12×12, and it lost its excitement after several misses in a row, so we just tallied up how many hits we had and moved on to our next math activity. For this post, I modified the printable to have 10×10 grids, so it should be a bit quicker.

Click on the image below to download and print your own copy!

To Assemble

You’ll need:

  • Two copies of my printable (download above)
  • Two clear plastic sheet protectors
  • Two whiteboard markers
  • Two thicker pieces of cardstock

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Putting together the game board:

  1. Fold the cardstock pieces in half to create a crease, then open and insert one into each clear plastic sheet protector
  2. Fold the game sheets in half also, then open and insert in front of the cardstock
  3. Use the whiteboard markers to play (and your finger or a whiteboard marker to erase and re-use the game boards!)

 

 

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How to Play

The goal of the game is to sink all of the other players’ ships first. You don’t get to see their ships, though, so it’s a combination of luck and strategy (in picking where to shoot and also in arranging your own ships so it’s harder to sink).

Each player begins by drawing their five ships on the top grid. You can place them vertically or horizontally, and anywhere you like in your “territory”.

Then, the players take turns calling out their missile launches. You’ll keep track of the hits and misses you make in your opponents’ territory on the bottom grid. In order to make this a multiplication game, too, you’ll be calling out the coordinates of your missile and then reciting the product of those numbers.

For example, you can call out “5 by 10, which is 50”. This means you aimed your missile at the square that is five squares across and 10 squares down.

If your ship is hit when your opponent calls out a coordinate, you reply “hit”. If not, you say, “miss”. If your entire ship gets sunk, you say “you sunk my submarine/battleship/aircraft carrier/destroyer/small ship”.


And that’s pretty much it! I had a lot of fun playing this game with my students because it brought me back to my childhood and got them to practice their multiplication tables in the process, too! Let me know what you thought about it in the comments below!

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Comments (4)

  • Mike Amada (@MikeAmada)

    October 23, 2018 at 11:17 am

    Free download Cool Math Fun Game for Kids at Google Play Store
    Click Here https://t.co/en31yjnq4n

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  • Making Math Fun For Kids – Part 3: Battleship – Conceptual Thinkers Mathematics and English Hub

    October 19, 2019 at 9:00 am

    […] but if you would like a larger-sized grid, you could find the original copy at Mistral Spirit: https://mistralspirit.com/2018/04/05/printable-battleship-math-game-for-learning-multiplication/) Ideally, you would also need two pieces of plastic sheet protectors to insert the printable grids […]

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  • Mandy

    August 9, 2022 at 3:12 pm

    The print out for Battleship has a type. It as 1-10 vertically, but should have A-J vertically.

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  • Making Math Fun For Kids – Part 3: Battleship – Conceptual Thinkers

    October 9, 2022 at 10:11 pm

    […] but if you would like a larger-sized grid, you could find the original copy at Mistral Spirit: https://mistralspirit.com/2018/04/05/printable-battleship-math-game-for-learning-multiplication/) Ideally, you would also need two pieces of plastic sheet protectors to insert the printable grids […]

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- dilettante
- Weltschmerz
- palimpsest

Pls note: photos taken “while reading” are obviously not as impromptu as they may appear on Instagram. They’re usually when (a) you’re on a reading intermission because you either haven’t started or are getting a bit tired of reading for so long or (b) there’s a long period of descriptive text that doesn’t necessarily represent the quality of the book and is a good time to hashtag let-me-take-a-selfie. So don’t read this one page and form an opinion about the book. Instagram isn’t reality. 😜

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Which of these 2 do you like best? 👆

#urbansketchers #urbansketch #sketchbook #sketching #artjournal #travelsketch #drawyourday #sketchbookart #watercolor #illustration #urbansketching #sketchjournal #fineliner #finelinerdrawing #moleskine #watercolortraveljournal #watercolorillustration #traveljournal #travelwatercolor #traveldiary
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