Multiplication Problems

How are area and multiplication related? It turns out that they are one in the same. Use a performance task to assess third grader's ability to reason about area using tiling and multiplication. They must demonstrate their ability to...

Explore patterns in the multiplication table in order to deepen your third graders' understanding of this essential skill. Implement this activity as a whole-class lesson, allowing young scholars to work in pairs or small groups to...

Unlock the keys to fluent multiplication with this upper-elementary math lesson. After an introduction to the five properties of multiplication, students match cards with different math problems to posters describing each property,...

How do I solve a two-digit multiplication problem? Your class tackles this question by walking through problem solving methods. They first investigates and applies traditional multiplication methods, and they then compare those with...

Teach children that going to the circus isn't all about clowning around with this lesson on multiplication. Focusing on a series of three circus-themed word problems, students practice creating area models as a tool for finding products...

Understanding multiplication as the sum of equal sized groups is a big step for young mathematicians. This concept is clearly demonstrated in the first video of this series, as students learn to write multiplication equations to...

Understanding the commutative property of multiplication is a big idea in the development of fluency with multiplication. The sixth video in the series clearly explains this fundamental property with multiple examples and visual models....

Knowing the associative property can make solving addition and multiplication problems much easier for young mathematicians. The final video in this series demonstrates how multiple factors in multiplication problems can be grouped in...

Explore yet another use of number lines as young mathematicians learn to answer multiplication problems by skip counting. This problem solving approach is clearly modeled with the examples presented in the third video of this series....

While young mathematicians are still working to memorize their multiplication facts, teach them how to use repeated addition when solving multiplication problems. The second video in a series models this skill with multiple examples,...