In late March children in grades 2 and 3 started a Multiplication unit
and how it is just another word for repeated addition. Children worked on
highlighting the multiples of 2’s, 3’s, 4’s on a hundred’s chart. Quickly
children were able to see the patterns. For example they noticed that on the x
2 page “all the digits in the ones place are the same in each column,” and that
“all the multiples are even numbers.” While the children continue to highlight multiplies
of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 and identifying patterns, they will be playing
multiplication games such as Tricky Triangles, Cover 50, Multiplication Pairs, Count
and Compare and Pile Up to familiarize and memorize of these facts.