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Multiplication Strategies

20/3/2014

Last year I made a sheet for my students that summarized, categorized and ordered the multiplication strategies they could learn and then use in relation to times tables.

This year I refined it for both parents and students to understand so as to be used for homework support when learning tables. This works well for students who prefer not to compete with themselves and also those who want/need to know strategies to learn and/or work out the tables.

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I also found another handy resources that most of my class love to use. It is called SuperSpeedMath2.0
by Chris Biffle. It is great for those students who enjoy such practice and it is based on self-challenge. It includes more than multiplication with addition facts, subtraction facts, division facts and fraction facts. You can download an explanation pack too. This helps you understand how to use it, but once you get your head around it, its two minutes of practice and fun for each child per day.

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Math: Basic Facts

15/2/2014

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Image from Lewis R at en.wikipedia

An on-line Cuisenaire Rods interactive tool or also available as an App.

I find some of the benefits from sharing are helping others, collecting new ideas, a unique opportunity to learn and synthesize.

So, thanks to our awesome substitute teacher for a great conversation about multi-modal learning for Math, I was reminded of those tactile and colourful number rods my own Math teacher used with us waaaaay back in high school, called Cuisenaire or Number Rods. We exchanged ideas and resources. I promptly went out and bought a few "Number Rod" sets to share amongst my students. I want to make the most of each ounce of opportunity to provide them with sticky learning, in this case, using colour, length, touch and manipulation to see each number's value and it's relationship with other numbers. I am trying to support their symbol or written work by making concepts touchable. Still searching for how to achieve this, I uncovered another gem of Steve Peha's in a document called "Safety In Numbers" found at Teaching That Makes Sense. After which I promptly tried out his ideas on 1cm square graph paper with Cuisenaire Rods resulting in creating the following worksheet to support my student's learning. I hope you find it as useful as I am.

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