Lesson Plan
Multiply by 5
Help your students discover patterns when multiplying by five.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to multiply single digit numbers by five and check that their answer ends in a five or zero.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show your students the first row of the Mystery Number 5 chart, while covering the rest of the chart with a piece of paper.
- Tell students that you want them to give a thumbs up once they think they have figured out what the mystery number is.
- Display one equation at a time, and read it aloud to your students.
- Call on students to share their answer after most of them are showing a thumbs up or you have shown the whole list of equations.
- Tell students that the mystery number five is special because lots of things come in groups of five.
- Ask students to share things that come in fives. For example, there are five fingers on a hand, five oceans of the Earth, nickels are five cents, quintuplets are five people, a school week is five days, and clocks have minutes grouped in fives.
- Explain that today they are going to use the strategy of skip-counting by fives to find the answer to multiplication problems with the number five.
Beginning
- Allow students to utilize a hundreds chart or multiplication chart.
- Have learners talk to a partner about their thoughts in their home language (L1) or English.
Intermediate
- Review the term mystery by providing a student-friendly definition, visual, and some examples.
- Give students additional time to determine the mystery number, and allow them to use a whiteboard or scratch paper as a support.