Hot off the presses, two new videos on the Area Model for Multiplication. This model is really useful because it uses the Area Model, which students learn in 3rd grade, to find partial products. Finding partial products is often easier because the students are multiplying with friendlier numbers.
In these videos Ms. Goldstick will teach you how to:
- Estimate the product before you begin so you’ll know if your answer is reasonable
- Decompose factors into friendly numbers
- Find partial products
- Combine the partial products to find the total product
Want some practice? Try these problems out after you watch the videos!