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How to Teach Multiplication
Welcome to the 2nd Grade Math Salamanders How to Teach Multiplication Worksheets.
Here you will find our selection of free multiplication worksheets to help your child learn all about multiplication and how it works using repeated addition.
Multiplication is introduced as a concept around Grade 2.
Unlike addition and subtracting, multiplication is a concept that does not come naturally to many children. Quite a lot of time may need to be dedicated in developing children's understanding of what multiplcation is and how it works. Time spent doing this is time well spent, so that children become more confident with their understanding of multiplication before they continue their journey into the multiplication table and solving multiplication problems.
The multiplication learning in 2nd Grade underpins future learning of the multiplication table, and the standard multiplication algorithm learnt in future grades.
During 2nd grade, children should be learning the following multiplication skills:
- understand what multiplication is and how it works;
- know the multiplication table to 5x5;
- solve simple multiplication problems.
Understanding Multiplication using Repeated Addition
Understanding what multiplication looks like is a key step to understanding multiplication itself.
There are 2 different models for multiplication which tend to be used in different countries: the 'lots of' model and the 'multiplied by' model
'LOTS OF' OR 'MULTIPLIED BY'
The 'Lots of' Model
3x4 is 3 'lots of' 4 which is 4+4+4.
5x2 is 5 'lots of' 2 which is 2+2+2+2+2.
The 'Multiplied by' Model
3x4 is 3 'multiplied by' 4 which is 3+3+3+3.
5x2 is 5 multiplied by 2 which is 5+5.
The 'Lots of' Model Visually
In the example above, 3 x 4 has been written as a repeated addition using 3 'lots of' 4, shown as jumping along a number line, and also as an array or image.
The 'Multiplied by' Model Visually
In the example above, 3 x 4 has been written as a repeated addition using 3 'multiplied by' 4, shown as jumping along a number line, and also as an array or image.
How to Teach Multiplication Worksheets
The following worksheets are all about learning to understand how multiplication works using repeated addition.
It is important that your child understands what is meant by 3x4, before they start to learn facts.
The following worksheets are all about learning to understand how multiplication works using repeated addition.
The worksheets have been split into 2 sections: one for the 'lots of' model ,and one section for the 'multiplied by' model .
These sheets will give your child a good grounding in basic multiplication, and will help give them make the link between multiplication - which is often quite an unfamiliar concept to children - and addition which they will hopefully be much more familiar with.
An answer sheet is available for each worksheet provided.
The worksheets in this section are carefully graded, allowing you to introduce concepts at an easier level before introducing harder work.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
- understand how multiplication works;
- convert a repeated addition fact into a multiplication fact;
- convert a multiplication fact into a repeated addition fact.
All the sheets in this section will help you how to teach multiplication to your child or class.
'Lots Of' Model Worksheets as Repeated Addition
'Multiplied by' Model Worksheets as Repeated Addition
Using Arrays and Images as a model of understanding Multiplication
The following webpages involve using arrays as a model to help to develop an understanding of what multiplication is.
These sheets are particularly useful to visual learners, and those children who like to see how things work visually.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
- understand multiplication as repeated addition;
- know how multiplication relates to adding groups or sets of objects;
- know that multiplication can be done in any order (5x3 is the same as 3x5).
All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their multiplication understanding.
Multiplication to 5x5
The following webpages involve learning multiplication facts to 5x5.
The sheets in this section are for children who already have a solid grounding in what multiplication is and how it works. They involve the skill of adding multiplying numbers to 5x5.
Using the sheets in this section will help your child to:
- multiply numbers to 5x5;
- work out times table facts to 5x5 where the total is given but one of the other numbers is missing.
All the multiplication worksheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at multiplying.
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Grading Guide
Here is the grading guide for our worksheets.
White
White: the easiest level for children at their early stages in 2nd grade.
Orange
Orange: medium level of difficulty for children who are working at the expected level in 2nd grade.
Purple
Purple: this is the hardest level for children who need that extra challenge.
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