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Multiplication: What is a Plocoroo?
In this sequence of two tasks, students use an animal flip book to explore the multiplicative idea of 'for each' by determining the number of possible animal combinations, represented as a Cartesian product.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Number
- Topic
- Properties of number Multiplication and division
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M5N06
- Publisher
- Australian Academy of Science
- Copyright
- © 2025 Australian Academy of Science. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- problem solving tree diagram
- Other terms
- permutations multiplications combinations
