Help your students compare and connect two important multiplication strategies: equal groups and repeated addition. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Candy Multiplication.

Multiplication is no longer a mystery when it is partnered with addition! Help your students make connections between multiplication and repeated addition with this hands-on lesson that includes several types of concrete examples.

In this lesson, students will have fun creating addition sentences by drawing and counting ladybug dots.

Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with a two-digit factor.

Introduce hundreds place value to your students. Increase their knowledge of place value while they enjoy working with ones, tens and hundreds blocks.

Discovery is exciting! In this hands-on lesson, your students will discover for themselves the rule behind the commutative property of addition.