Lesson 3

Explore Multiplication by Multidigit Numbers

Est. Class Sessions: 2–3

Summarizing the Lesson

Use the Multidigit Multiplication Strategies Menu in the Student Guide Reference section to summarize the lesson.

  • What strategies on the menu did you use in this lesson? (We used rectangles and expanded form in Parts 2 and 3 of the lesson. In Part 1 of the lesson, we used simpler numbers and may have used other methods as well.)

Also remind students of some of the invented strategies they used at the beginning of the lesson and on the How Many Squares pages by reviewing the students' recorded strategies from Parts 1 and 2 of the lesson.

  • What method(s) will you use again for other problems?
  • What do you like about the method(s) you chose?