Multiplication

In late March children in grades 2 and 3 started a Multiplication unit and how it is just another word for repeated addition. Children worked on highlighting the multiples of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s on a hundred’s chart. Quickly children were able to see the patterns. For example they noticed that on the x 2 page “all the digits in the ones place are the same in each column,” and that “all the multiples are even numbers.” While the children continue to highlight multiplies of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 and identifying patterns, they will be playing multiplication games such as Tricky Triangles, Cover 50, Multiplication Pairs, Count and Compare and Pile Up to familiarize and memorize of these facts.