Patterns in the multiplication table
🎯 Objective: Students find and explain patterns in the multiplication table.
Lesson outline
- Color every even product on a multiplication chart.
- Ask why 4 × n is always even and what is special about the 9s and 5s columns.
- Groups find and explain one more pattern.
- Exit: describe one pattern in words.
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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 “Multiplying by multiples of 10 & patterns”
- Multiplying by multiples of 10
- Patterns in the multiplication table
- Two-step word problems
- Reasonable answers
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