In this ongoing class students will learn a new foundational skill for solving multiplication and division word problems. Students will be taught how to utilize the strategies of: Base 10, expanded form, repeated subtraction and addition, equal groups, and arrays. These strategies can be applied to both multiplication and division word problems and will help students better understand the foundations of multiplication and division which will better prepare them for more advanced word problems in the future. At the end of this series of classes there will be 4 classes involving 2-step word problems that will dedicated to helping students determine which operation is needed to solve a word problem. In each class meeting, students will be given many opportunities to share out their thought process and interact with classmates to solve word problems. Each class is also designed using the gradual release model which provides students with high support from the teacher in the beginning of the class and students are able to preform tasks independently by the end of the lesson. Following is a schedule of the first 14 weeks of class topics: 

Schedule for Classes: 
Week 1 (Week of August 4, 2024): Multiplication Repeated Addition
Week 2 (Week of August 11, 2024): Multiplication With Arrays
Week 3 (Week of August 18, 2024): Multiplication With Base 10
Week 4 (Week of August 25, 2024): Multiplication With Equal Groups
Week 5 (Week of September 1, 2024): Multiplication With Expanded Form
Week 6 (Week of September 8, 2024): Division With Repeated Subtraction
Week 7 (Week of September 15, 2024): Division With Arrays
Week 8 (Week of September 22, 2024): Division With Equal Groups
Week 9 (Week of September 29, 2024): Division With Fact Families
Week 10 (Week of October 6, 2024): Introduction to Remainders in Division (Using Arrays)
Week 11 (Week of October 27, 2024): Week of February 7-13: The Associative and Commutative Properties of Multiplication
Week 12 (Week of November 3, 2024): Week of February 14-20: The Distributive Property of Multiplication 
Week 13 (Week of November 10, 2024): Week of February 21-27: Identifying the Associative, Commutative, and Distributive Properties