🟦 3s & 4s
What is 3 × 6?
Answer: 18
What is 6 × 3?
Answer: 18
What is 8 × 3?
Answer: 24
Which has the same product?
A. 3 × 7
B. 7 × 3
C. Both A and B
Answer: C
There are 6 bags of marbles. Each bag has 7 marbles.
How many marbles are there altogether?
6 × 7 = 42 marbles
What is 4 × 7?
Answer: 28
What is 7 × 4?
Answer: 28
What is 9 × 4?
Answer: 36
Use the distributive property to solve:
6 × 7 = 6 × 5 + 6 × 2
Answer: 42
A teacher has 8 boxes of pencils. Each box has 9 pencils.
How many pencils does she have in all?
8 × 9 = 72 pencils
What is 3 × 9?
Answer: 27
What is 6 × 8?
Answer: 48
What is 8 × 7?
Answer: 56
Break apart 8 × 7 into two easier multiplication problems.
8 × 5 + 8 × 2
= 40 + 16
= 56
There are 7 tables in the classroom. Each table has 6 students sitting at it.
How many students are sitting at the tables altogether?
7 × 6 = 42 students
What is 4 × 12?
Answer: 48
What is 7 × 9?
Answer: 63
What is 9 × 8?
Answer: 72
Explain what happens when you switch the order of the factors in a multiplication problem.
Answer: The product stays the same.
A farmer has 9 rows of plants. There are 8 plants in each row. The farmer picks 12 plants.
How many plants are left?
9 × 8 = 72
72 − 12 = 60 plants
A multiplication problem has a product of 36. One factor is 4. What is the other factor?
Answer: 9
What is 7 × 12?
Answer: 84
What is 8 × 12?
Answer: 96
You don't know 7 × 8, but you know 7 × 5 and 7 × 3.
Use the distributive property to find 7 × 8.
(7 × 5) + (7 × 3)
= 35 + 21
= 56
A school has 6 classrooms. Each classroom has 24 students. The school puts the students into groups of 6 for an activity.
How many groups can the school make?
6 × 24 = 144 students
144 ÷ 6 = 24 groups