Multiplicative thinking (14 lessons)

In this sequence of 14 lessons, students learn to multiply using known facts, break numbers apart, and use strategies like distributive property and area models to solve problems.

Additional details

Year level(s) Year 4
Audience Teacher
Purpose Teaching resource
Format Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches Explicit teaching, Worked examples, Questioning, Mathematics investigation, Concrete Representational Abstract model
Keywords multiplication facts, partitioning, distributive property, area models, problem solving, summative assessment

Curriculum alignment

Curriculum connections Numeracy
Strand and focus Number
Topics Multiplication and division
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions
AC9M4N07
Choose and use estimation and rounding to check and explain the reasonableness of calculations including the results of financial transactions

AC9M4N06
Develop efficient strategies and use appropriate digital tools for solving problems involving addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division where there is no remainder

Numeracy progression Number and place value (P7)
Additive strategies (P8)
Multiplicative strategies (P7)

Copyright details

Organisation

Victoria State Government Department of Education

Copyright

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