Find The Product
Area Model
Strategies
Word Problems
100

What is the product? 24 × 9

216

100

Show me 8 x 16 solved using the area model.

"On Paper"

100

What strategy requires you to draw a box and put numbers into separate boxes?

Area Model

100

A display at a store contains 5 rows of 24 fruit drink bottles and 8 rows of 12 water bottles. How many fruit drink and water bottles does the display contain?

216

200

What is the product? 159 × 5

795

200

Show me 7 x 502 using the area model.

"On Paper"

200

What strategy requires you to draw pictures of hundreds, tens, and ones and count and re-group them?

Base-Ten Blocks Or Quick Pictures

200

A playhouse on a school’s playground has 2 levels. The first level is 8 feet off the ground. The second level is 12 feet higher than the first level. A tree on the playground is 2 times as tall as the playhouse. How many feet tall is the tree?

40 feet

300

What is the product of 8 × 1,247?

9,976

DAILY DOUBLE

300

What is the name of the property that allows us to use the area model correctly?

The Distributive Property. 

300

What strategy requires you to set up your multiplication problem vertically and solve?

Vertical Multiplication or Regular

300

A bookshelf has 3 shelves. There are 4 sports books and 13 mystery books on each shelf. How many sports and mystery books are on the bookshelf?

51

400

6 × 8,400

50,400

400

Show me 9 x 561 in an area model?

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400

In what strategy do we add the factors up to get the product?

Partial Product 

400

There are 4 rows of chairs in a classroom. There are 2 teacher chairs and 13 student chairs in each row. How many teacher and student chairs are in the classroom?

60

500

9 x 11,196

100,764

500

Show me 11 x 430 in an area model

-

DAILY TRIPLE

500

What is expanded form?

When you separate a number to show its most basic parts.

500

Students are watching a school play. There are 12 fourth grade students sitting in the first row and 9 fourth grade students sitting in the second row. There are 3 times as many third grade students sitting in these rows. How many third grade students are sitting in these rows?

62


DAILY DOUBLE!!

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