Description
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to create an array to represent groups of objects, identify the rows and columns in the array, construct repeating addition and multiplication number sentences to represent arrays, use the multiplication strategies of repeated addition and arrays to model various situations, and solve multiplication number sentences by using multiplication strategies such as repeating addition and skip counting. This lesson plan includes several hands on activities that are engaging and provide several visual aide ideas so that the students can have a deep conceptual understanding of multiplication as repeated addition.
Highlights
Description
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to create an array to represent groups of objects, identify the rows and columns in the array, construct repeating addition and multiplication number sentences to represent arrays, use the multiplication strategies of repeated addition and arrays to model various situations, and solve multiplication number sentences by using multiplication strategies such as repeating addition and skip counting. This lesson plan includes several hands on activities that are engaging and provide several visual aide ideas so that the students can have a deep conceptual understanding of multiplication as repeated addition.

