Workshop: Strategies for Multiplication Facts

Review student work and progress from previous lessons to guide instructional decisions about the following Expectations:

E1.

Represent multiplication and division problems with number lines, drawings, rectangular arrays, and number sentences.

E2.

Use strategies to solve multiplication and division problems (e.g., skip counting, repeated addition, repeated subtraction, reasoning from known facts, and invented).

E3.

Use the multiplication properties of 0 and 1 to solve multiplication problems.

E4.

Use turn-around facts to solve multiplication problems (applying the commutative property of multiplication).

E5.

Identify and use patterns to solve the multiplication facts for the 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s, 9s, and square numbers.

In Lessons 1–9 of this unit, students focused on identifying patterns in the multiplication facts and developing strategies to solve the multiplication facts for the 2s, 3s, 5, 10s, 9s, and square numbers. They will summarize these strategies and document their strategies in Self-Check: Questions 1–8 in the Student Activity Book. Students will identify their level of confidence with a particular strategy and choose practice from a Workshop menu to further develop these strategies. Use your own evaluation of students' progress to help guide their choices.

Plan to organize the class into partners or small groups based on problem selection. These groups may change as the Workshop progresses.