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Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Area Model for Multiplication

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Overview

When first learning to multiply two 2-digit numbers, students will use the area model. To start, students will use their knowledge of place value to decompose into tens and ones. To decompose means to break apart. This video will introduce students to this strategy. 

    MA19.4.11

    Find the product of two factors (up to four digits by a one-digit number and two two-digit numbers), using strategies based on place value and the properties of operations.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.4.11

    Vocabulary

    • Quotient
    • Dividend
    • Divisor
    • Divide
    • Multiply
    • Multiple
    • Equation
    • Remainder
    • Area model
    • Greatest multiple
    • Decompose
    • Compose
    • Array
    • Properties of operations
    • Unknown factor
    • Partial quotient

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • How to decompose and compose numbers in a variety of ways using place value and the properties of operations to demonstrate a variety of strategies for division.
    • Division can be described as an unknown factor problem.
    • A variety of contextual situations can be represented with a division equation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Use strategies based on place value to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Use the properties of operations to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Use arrays and area models to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Illustrate division situations with rectangular arrays and area models.
    • Write an equation to represent a division situation.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    Division expressions represent
    • The number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups.
    • The number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.
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    Resource Provider

    PBS
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