A perfect self-assessment tool to introduce your students to when launching your Multiplication/Division of Mult-digit Numbers unit!

Although this does not yet have students multiplying and dividing, it builds key awareness and foundational skills of fact families and patterns found when multiplying/dividing multi-digit numbers.

Learning Goal: Recognize patterns in numbers and shapes to build awareness to solve future multiplication and division problems

Addressing Standard 4.OA.C.5: Generate a number or shape pattern that follows a given rule. Identify apparent features of the pattern that were not explicit in the rule itself. For example, given the rule “Add 3” and the starting number 1, generate terms in the resulting sequence and observe that the terms appear to alternate between odd and even numbers. Explain informally why the numbers will continue to alternate in this way.

Building Toward Standard 4.NBT.B.5: Multiply a whole number of up to four digits by a one-digit whole number, and multiply two two-digit numbers, using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.