A fun and thorough introduction to multiplication, especially suited to visual and auditory learners.
Stephanie and her friends guide children through the Multiplication Circus where learning times tables is fun.
Choose a factor and away you go. Much more than a memorization tool, each section teaches concepts and memorization strategies with models, recitations, and algebraic thinking.
What is Multiplication? Engaging models show that multiplication is a shortcut for repeated addition or skip counting.
Properties and vocabulary: Get started right with key vocabulary and algebraic thinking. Children learn the easy times 0 and times 1 facts, and turn-around facts.
Strategy: See how one set of multiplication facts builds on a related set.
Practice: Join in to recite a family of multiplication facts.
Multiplication table: As an aid to recall, children recite multiplication facts while they complete a multiplication table for each target factor.
Common Core Standards:
Grade 2: Work with equal groups of addends to gain foundations for multiplication.
Grade 3: Understand properties of multiplication.
Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply.
Fluently multiply within 100.