Building Number Sense with Multi-Digit Multiplication Strategies

Students are learning math differently than how their parents learned and sometimes that is challenging for parents to help their students learn math strategies. This 8 part class, meeting twice a week for four weeks, is focused on learning multiple multi-digit multiplication methods. Learning multiple methods, rooted in number sense, allows students to build multiplication fluency and their confidence. 

Each class we will focus on a different multiplication concept. The first week is focused on reviewing the concept of multiplication, multiplication facts, and 1x1 digit multiplication. This will build students' confidence and prepare them for multi-digit multiplication. In week 2, we will focus on the Area Model Method. In week 3, we will focus on the Partial Products Method. In the final week, we will review the prior weeks and play multiplication games!

These math lessons will be taught live by the teacher. Throughout there will be opportunities to work with manipulatives to help solidify understanding, time for guided practice then independent practice, and of course time to interact with the teacher and peers. Questions and discussion are welcome! Additional math concepts that will be incorporated include place value, factor and product vocabulary, adding multi-digit numbers, and area of a rectangle. Please sign up for this class now to learn with me and have some fun with math!


WEEKLY CONCEPTS
Day 1 - Multiplication Fact Fluency and Array Multiplication
Day 2 - Multiplying by Powers of 10 and Estimating
Day 3 - Area Model Method, 1x2 digits 
Day 4 - Area Model Method, 2x2 digits
Day 5 - Partial Product Method, 1x2 digits
Day 6 - Partial Product Method, 2x2 digits
Day 7 - Review Multiplication Methods
Day 8 - Game Day!

*Note: Students should have an understanding of adding 3-digit numbers and know their multiplication facts up to 10x10 prior to this class.