"Division and Multiplication Fact Family Activities With Word Search-Style Puzzles" is a worksheet that uses puzzle- and brainteaser-style activities to help students practice multiplication and division skills.

The top of the page features a set of two multiplication and two division problems within the same fact families. Students fill in one of the factors in the multiplication problems and the answers in the division problems. The digits they have to choose from are provided above in a number bank. For example, one pair would be 5 x ___ = 30 and 30 ÷ 5 = ___. The next pair might be 9 x ___ = 45 and 45 ÷ 9 = ___. The number bank above includes the numbers 6, 5, 6, 5. Students cross them out as they use each number.

Below is a word search-style puzzle, but instead of finding words, students find division problems. For example, they would have to find the problem 45 ÷ 9 = 5 horizontally or vertically in a grid of numbers and symbols.

Fourth-grade pages practice specific divisors like 3s, 5s, and 9s on the same page. Fifth-grade pages practice all single-digit divisors between 2 and 9 on the same page.

Puzzles and brainteasers can be a good way for students to practice memorizing their math facts and families. It engages their brain in new and different ways compared to standard worksheets, which can strengthen associations and boost recall.

Instead of asking students to find the answers to a multiplication and division fact family, have them fill in factors, dividends, and divisors. You could include a number bank at the top with the answers in each section so they can cross them off as they go along.

Word search-style puzzles can be fun because instead of finding words, students have to find correct division or multiplication problems in a grid of numbers and symbols. You could try crossword-style puzzles with math problems as well as fact family triangles.