Cluster 2: Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division. (Major Cluster)Archived

This online game replicates the popular "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" format, using multiplication facts. It's a fun way for kids to practice multiplication!

Type: Educational Game

Students are asked to solve a division problem using a calculator but without using the division key.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students consider a division fact that they are likely to know and are asked to turn it into a multiplication fact. If successful, they are asked to rewrite a basic division fact that they are not likely to know and which has a symbol for the unknown number.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given a word problem and asked to write an equation for the problem. Then the students are to select a multiplication equation that can also be used to solve the problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked to find the product of three numbers and are observed to see if they use the Associative Property to find the product more easily.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given two arrays, one representing the equation 7 x 9 = 63 and the other representing the equation (5 + 2) x 9 = 63, to see if they recognize a relationship between the two.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are given two problems to solve, one represented by the equation 4 x 6 = 24 and the other by the equation 6 x 4 = 24, to see if they recognize the answer to the second problem based on the Commutative Property.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are asked if the Commutative Property holds for division.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students are told of a visiting alien from a planet where division is not taught, and asked to rewrite four division problems as multiplication problems so the alien can do them. The students are also asked to explain why it might be easier to do the multiplication problems than the given division problem.

Type: Formative Assessment

In this inquiry based lesson, students will find partial products of arrays to solve multiplication problems. They will also move from a concrete representation of arrays using manipulatives to a pictorial representation. 

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will learn how to solve one-digit by two-digit multiplication problems using the distributive property.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will use arrays to understand the distributive property of multiplication and to demonstrate that multiplying a multiplicand by two factors of the multiplier and then adding their products is the same as finding the product of the multiplicand and the multiplier. For example: 5 x 9 = 5(6 + 3) = (5 x 6) + (5 x 3) = 30 + 15 = 45.

Type: Lesson Plan

Help Mom and Dad tell Grandma about Cindy's trip to the carnival using bar models and arrays to relate division to multiplication with an unknown factor.

Type: Lesson Plan

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This lesson introduces students to the concept behind the Distributive Property of Multiplication. Students will decompose arrays into smaller parts and write the corresponding multiplication sentence for each smaller array.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is designed as an introduction to the Distributive Property by using a 100-dot matrix. The lesson addresses one-digit x one-digit multiplication challenges as a precursor to one-digit x two-digit multiplication.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will explore the Zero Property of Multiplication using array and equal-group models for multiplication. Students will model story problems, translate problems into multiplication facts, and identify patterns in a set of multiplication facts to develop understanding of the Zero Property of Multiplication.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will explore the Multiplicative Identity Property of 1, using array and equal-group models for multiplication. Students will model story problems, translate problems into multiplication equations, and identify patterns in a set of multiplication facts to develop understanding of the Multiplicative Identity Property of 1.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will get to evaluate data and create a process for which bey blade would be the "best" for Mr. Brown's toy store. Data will include customer feedback, price, style and revolutions per minute. Students will apply understanding of division in problem-solving. They will write a letter explaining their procedure using grade-appropriate language conventions.

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Type: Lesson Plan

The definition of the Zero Property of Multiplication will be analyzed, modeled and practiced.   

Type: Lesson Plan

Students will engage with questions to evaluate the students' abilities to select and apply multiplication strategies with fluency and efficiency. The focus of the lesson is decomposing numbers to multiply using the Distributive property and understanding and applying the Commutative property. Then, students will reinforce decomposing of factors while playing Decomposition of Factors. The lesson concludes with a real world application problem on an Exit Slip.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson will provide students with practical application activities to help them understand how division is simply solving a problem with an unknown factor. This activity includes opportunities for students to use fact families when identifying unknown factors and a tic-tac-toe game to provide whole group practice as well as to be used at a center, or for independent reinforcement of the skills.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will build and manipulate a variety of arrays in the context of creating games for a Fall Festival. They will practice using the Commutative Property of Multiplication to find related multiplication facts.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a hands-on lesson for introducing and practicing building arrays to create models that represent the distributive property of multiplication, and then using those arrays to draw models of the equations they represent.

Type: Lesson Plan

Explore how multiplication can help you solve division problems during this moon-themed, interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn strategies, like the commutative property, to help you become better at multiplying in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Students can practice answering mathematics questions on a variety of topics. With an account, students can save their work and send it to their teacher when complete.

Type: Student Center Activity

In this activity, the students demonstrate that numbers can be used to describe various quantities and relationships between quantities. Students gain experience adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing - building their understanding of how numbers are put together and taken apart. Students connect what they know to symbolic representation using number sentences.

Type: Teaching Idea

A problem for students to solve using students' understanding of the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The problem presents an opportunity for students to appreciate the value of approaching a solution in a systematic way using what they know about the structure of operations.

Type: Teaching Idea

In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, explore the distributive property of multiplication: Why does it work? How does it work? Why would I put it to use?

Type: Tutorial

In this video tutorial from Khan Academy, use arrays to explore the commutative and associative properties of multiplication.

Type: Tutorial

Find the number to replace the symbol for the unknown in multiplication and division equations.

Type: Tutorial

This lesson reviews the commutative and associative properties as it applies to addition and multiplication. These properties are useful with mental math and with solving equations. This resource includes a video lesson, video examples and a short quiz.

Type: Tutorial

This collection of 10 lessons uses children's literature to engage students in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The lesson arrangement is flexible and adaptable for any scope and sequence.

Type: Unit/Lesson Sequence

The students will be given mutiplication and division problems which they must answer. They also have the option of being given a number then stating the factors of how that number was attained using either multiplication or division.

Type: Virtual Manipulative