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🧮 4th Grade · Math4.NBT.B.5Unit 4: Multi-digit multiplication

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000

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🎯 Objective: Students use place value patterns to multiply by multiples of 10.

Lesson outline

  1. Pattern: 6 × 4, 6 × 40, 6 × 400, 6 × 4,000.
  2. Explain with place value, not “add zeros”.
  3. Estimate products by rounding one factor.
  4. Exit: 7 × 3,000 and 8 × 50.

Lesson 1 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

4.NBT.B.5

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 4 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Multiply up to four digits by one digit and two digits by two digits
  • Explain with area models and partial products

✅ 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: Multi-digit multiplication📚 All 4th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Multi-digit multiplication”

  1. Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1,000
  2. Area model: one-digit multiplier
  3. Partial products
  4. Two-digit by two-digit
  5. Multiplication word problems

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