Visual Mathematics

Multiplication by Grouping Level 1 Video Lesson • The grouping strategy taught allows students to multiply without knowing all their multiplication facts; • This video takes you step by step on how to develop the meaning of multiplication; • It guides students to learn the most effective early multiplication strategy: the multiplication by grouping strategy; • It provides a model for a conceptual-focus Common Core lesson; • With this strategy students only have to know how to count by 1,

This is an engaging game patterned after the popular Connect four game that gets to students to practice their multiplication facts, The facts are set up to progress form the easiest (1, 2, 5, 10) to the most difficult ones (11, 4, 8, 3 and 6, 9, 12, 7). I like this activity a lot because it is not based on chance but on both game strategy and progressively improving your skills at recalling the key multiplication facts The set includes four different game boards, each board at a different le