Multiplication stories
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L529
A lesson plan for grades 3–4 Mathematics
In this lesson, students create multiplication stories where one factor is 6 or 7, play a multiplication game, and then record their current level of mastery of the multiplication facts. Illuminations provides handouts and specific instructions for completing this lesson. Using a helpful website, students work through their multiplication table for 6 and work in groups to create a graph. Then, students participate in several other activities that assist in the memorization of the multiples of 7.
Students will:
- Create and solve multiplication problems.
- Practice selected multiplication facts.
- Identify facts known at the immediate recall level.
NCTM Standards and Expectations:
- Understand the effects of multiplying and dividing whole numbers.
- Select appropriate methods and tools for computing with whole numbers from among mental computation, estimation, calculators, and paper and pencil according to the context and nature of the computation and use the selected method or tools.
- Develop fluency with basic number combinations for multiplication and division and use these combinations to mentally compute related problems, such as 3050.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 3
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will model, identify, and compute with whole numbers through 9,999.
- Objective 1.03: Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using:
- Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.
- Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations.
- Relationships between operations.
- Objective 1.03: Develop fluency with multiplication from 1x1 to 12x12 and division up to two-digit by one-digit numbers using:
Grade 4
- Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with non-negative rational numbers.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency with multiplication and division:
- Two-digit by two-digit multiplication (larger numbers with calculator).
- Up to three-digit by two-digit division (larger numbers with calculator).
- Strategies for multiplying and dividing numbers.
- Estimation of products and quotients in appropriate situations.
- Relationships between operations.
- Objective 1.02: Develop fluency with multiplication and division:
