Multiplication- Make me in as many ways as possible?

Number Talk:

Explain to students this image is showing 3 groups of 5. 

Ask students: How many apples altogether? How many different strategies can you use to solve this?

Record a range of students’ responses on the board. Try to model:

• repeated addition

• number lines

• equation.

Questioning:

Probe students, what strategy they found the most useful and why?

Repeat to solve:

There are 6 groups of 4. How many ways can you solve this?