🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.OA.C.7Unit 1: Meaning of multiplication

Multiplying by 2, 5 and 10

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🎯 Objective: Students learn facts for 2s, 5s and 10s and their patterns.

Lesson outline

  1. Skip-count by 2, 5 and 10 to music.
  2. Color the 2s, 5s and 10s on a hundred chart: products of 10 end in 0; products of 5 end in 0 or 5; products of 2 are even.
  3. Partner fact game with only 2s, 5s and 10s.
  4. Exit: ten quick facts, e.g. 7 × 5, 9 × 2, 6 × 10.

Lesson 5 of 5 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.C.7

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Interpret products as equal groups (5 × 7 = 5 groups of 7)
  • Use arrays, equal groups and number lines to multiply

✅ 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”.

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More lessons in “Meaning of multiplication”

  1. Equal groups
  2. Arrays
  3. Skip-counting on a number line
  4. Multiplication word problems
  5. Multiplying by 2, 5 and 10

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