I think it’s to a student’s advantage to know and be able to use both the traditional algorithm of multiplication plus the partial products method of multiplication. Having this knowledge will increase their understanding and be effective in improving their efficiency while multiplying. This product gives the students many opportunities to try both methods. The digits in the numbers to multiply together in this resource (Set 2) are limited to 0,1,2,3,4, 5, 6. The reason for this : *I wanted to