Times Table Strategy Finder: Arrays, Doubling, Nines and Splitting a Hard Fact

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Opens on Chapter 6’s example: 7 × 8, split into 5 × 8 and 2 × 8.

Rows (first number) 0 to 12

In each row 0 to 12

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Enter the numbers from the worksheet, then press Show me.

From the book, Chapter 6. 7 × 8 = 5 × 8 + 2 × 8 = 40 + 16 = 56. In the array, the 7 rows split into 5 rows and 2 rows; nothing is lost and nothing is counted twice. That is the distributive property, which the area model in Chapter 7 uses for bigger numbers.

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