Lesson Plan
More Words, More Problems
Are your students struggling with multiplication when it comes to word problems? In this lesson, students will see multiplication problems as a comparison and use word problems to create multiplication equations.
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Learning Objectives
Students will understand how to interpret a multiplication equation as a comparison and interpret word problems as multiplication equations.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Review the commutative property of multiplication with students.
- write 12x9 and 9x12 on the board. Create a visual representation of these problems by making 12 groups of 9 under the first problem and 9 groups of 12 under the second.
- Ask students if these problems are the same and if the order matters.
- Then ask students to look at the models and explain how they compare and differ. Tell them that though both equal 108, the models have a different number of sets.
- Explain to the class that the order of the problem doesn't matter but the comparisons between the models do.