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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.OA.B.5Unit 3: Properties & multiplication facts

0 and 1 rules

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🎯 Objective: Students explain the rules for multiplying and dividing with 0 and 1.

Lesson outline

  1. Story: 5 plates with 0 cookies on each — how many cookies? Act out 4 × 1 with 4 kids holding 1 pencil each.
  2. Record the rules: n × 0 = 0, n × 1 = n, n ÷ 1 = n, n ÷ n = 1.
  3. Discuss why 6 ÷ 0 makes no sense: 6 cookies shared among 0 friends — who gets them?
  4. Exit: sort ten cards (7 × 1, 0 × 9, 5 ÷ 5, 8 ÷ 1…) into equals 0, equals 1, equals the other number.

Lesson 6 of 7 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3.OA.B.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use commutative, associative and distributive properties to multiply
  • Fluently multiply and divide within 100

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Multiplication & division within 100🖨️ Worksheet: Multiplication Facts 2–10📚 All 3rd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Properties & multiplication facts”

  1. Commutative property
  2. Facts of 3, 4 and 6
  3. Distributive property
  4. Facts of 7, 8 and 9
  5. Associative property
  6. 0 and 1 rules
  7. Fact fluency check

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