Multiplication Activity
Materials
- Grid paper, page 105 (2 or more sheets per student)
- Scissors (1 per student)
- Crayons or markers (2 colors per student)
- 12" x 18" construction paper (1 sheet per student)
- Glue sticks (1 for the teach or 1 per student)
- The completed project prepared by the teacher before the lesson
Introduction
This project is a motivating way of teaching students how to represent multiplication facts as arrays.
If this is the class's first introduction to multiplication arrays, the teacher should probably start by offering them a simple definition. Tell students that one number in a multiplication fact is the amount on the side of the array, and the other number is the amount on the top of the array.
More advanced classes should begin to understand how arrays are linked to the idea of multiplication as repeated addition.
