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Lesson Plan
Guess the Operation
Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practice those skills.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to solve basic multiplication and division problems.
Introduction
(10minutes)
- Ask the students to explain whatmultiplicationis. Potential guiding questions include:What process is being repeated when you multiply? When multiplying a whole number, does the number you start with get bigger or smaller?Make sure that your students know that multiplication is like adding groups of numbers together.
- Ask the students to explain whatdivisionis. Potential questions include:What process is being repeated when you divide? When you divide a whole number, does the number you start with get bigger or smaller?Make sure that your students know that division is breaking apart a big number into smaller numbers.
- Ask the students if they have ever heard of afact familybefore. Give the students sufficient time to express their ideas. Make sure the students mention that fact families are three numbers that are related, just like the students and their family members are related.
- Explain to the students that just as there are fact families in addition and subtraction, we can also use fact families with multiplication and division. Explain to the students that memorizing fact families will help them have more fluency when they solve multiplication and division facts.