RACE TO THE MOON

DIVISION FACTS TO 5X5

Age Range: 3rd Grade+

Number of players: 2 or 3
Learning: Division facts up to 5x5
You will need
- Each player will need 15-20 counters of their own color.
- calculator (optional)
Instructions
• Choose a division fact you want to place a counter on. You can only place a counter on a
calculation which does not already have a counter on.
• Work out the answer in your head. You can use the multiples lists at the top of the page
to help you.
• Say the calculation and the answer.
• Your partner will check in their head (or on a calculator).
• If you are right, you place a counter. Then it is your partner’s turn. If you are wrong, you
don’t get to place a counter.
• The winner is the first person to complete an unbroken path of counters from the Earth
to the Moon (path can go across, down, diagonally). See below.
Variations
• If you get an answer wrong, your partner can remove one of your counters from the
board.

Examples of
winning paths.
 Who will be first to get from Earth to the Moon?

6÷2 5÷5 20÷5 1÷1

4÷1 12÷4 2÷2 9÷3
8÷4 16÷4 16÷4 6÷2
3÷3 10÷2 15÷3 10÷2
4÷1 6÷3 4÷1 15÷3
10÷5 5÷5 20÷5 25÷5
10÷2 4÷2 8÷2 20÷4
4÷2 12÷3 12÷4 12÷4
9÷3 25÷5 15÷5 6÷2
6÷3 20÷4 8÷2 3÷1
2÷2 4÷1 9÷3 16÷4
5÷1 10÷2 3÷3 20÷5
15÷5 12÷4 8÷4 6÷3
6÷2 20÷5 10÷2 12÷3