Teaching Gracefully

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 objectives, essentia

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 act

Cut out and laminate these puzzle pieces to use as a game for students to reinforce and practice the concept that multiplication is repeated addition. The students will match together arrays, multiplication sentences, and repeated addition sentences that all represent the same amount.

Use this powerpoint to teach, show, and demonstrate multiplication strategies and patterns. This powerpoint with transitions and animations is a helpful visual aide that shows students how they can use a multiplication fact table with factors on the top row and first column to find the product where the row and the column intersect. This powerpoint also teaches about arrays and how to find the product of factors by using an array. This powerpoint fives multiple examples using each strategy type

After teaching students strategies and procedures for how to divide, have students complete this fun, engaging, and hands on real-world performance task as another method and form of assessment. Bring in candy and have the students figure out different ways to share the candy evenly among all of the students. See how many ways the students can prove to you the number of pieces that each student should receive. The students need to write a word problem and an equation, draw a model, show their wo

Here are 5 real world word problems that involve the process of two step division. Use the first word problem as an example or work through together as guided instruction, then use the rest of the word problems to see if the students can apply the skill of division to solving real world word problems.