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Use Equal Groups to solve this problem.
5 boxes with 4 candies in each box. How many total candies are there?
5 x 4 = 20
Make a tape diagram to represent the word problem.
6 buckets with 2 popsicles in each bucket.
6 x 2 = 12
Make an array to represent this word problem.
There are 4 rows with 3 chairs in each row.
4 rows x 3 in each row (3 columns) = 12 total
Sonya has 6 packs of snap cubes. Each pack contains 10 snap cubes. How many snap cubes does Sonya have?
6 packs x 10 cubes in each pack = ?
6 x 10 = 60
ANYTHING TIMES 10...
Gracie collected seashells while she was at the beach. She put 2 seashells in each sand bucket. She had 9 sand buckets. How many seashells did Gracie collect?
9 sand buckets x 2 seashells in each = ?
9 x 2 = ?
9 x 2 = 18
Spencer counted 2 tires on each motorcycle he saw in the parking lot. He saw 2 motorcycles.
Draw a tape diagram that represents the word problem
|2|2|
2 x 2 = 4
Blake and Celeste are playing a game. They placed game tokens in equal rows.
● They made 3 rows.
● They put 5 game tokens in each row.
How many game tokens did Blake and Celeste place in rows?
3 rows with 5 in each row
3 x 5 = 15
Yazz went to Target and purchased 7 containers of cookies. Each container had 5 cookies in it. How many cookies did Yazz purchase?
7 containers with 5 in each
7 x 5 = 35
Which of the following could be represented with a multiplication expression?
A Gwendolyn drew 5 squares. Each square has 4 sides. How many total sides do Gwendolyn’s squares have?
B Sari has 21 stickers. She wants to share them equally between herself and 2 friends. How many stickers should each person get?
C Hector had 20 apples. He gave 8 of them to his teacher. How many apples does Hector have now?
D Darren has 45 pages to read over the weekend. He read 28 pages on Saturday. How many pages does Darren have left to read?
A Gwendolyn drew 5 squares. Each square has 4 sides. How many total sides do Gwendolyn’s squares have?
5 squares with 4 sides on each = 20 sides
5 x 4 = 20
Is the following equation true?
4 x 3 = 3 x 4
Explain your answer.
The commutative property means that we can switch factors and the product is the same.
4 groups of 3 = 3 groups of 4
12 = 12
Noah has some packs of baseball cards. Each pack has 5 baseball cards. Noah has a total of 50 baseball cards.
Which equation could be used to find how many packs of cards Jada has?
A 5 + 50 = ?
B ? x 5 = 50
C 5 x 50 = ?
D ? + 5 = 50
B ? x 5 = 50
G x E = T
? packs x 5 cards in each = 50 total cards
Bailey has 2 packs of color pencils. She has the same number of color pencils in each pack. Bailey has 20 color pencils in all.
Which equation could be used to find how many color pencils Bailey has?
A 20 - ? = 2
B 2 + ? = 20
C 2 + 20 = ?
D 2 x ? = 20
2 packs x ? pencils in each = 20 total
D 2 x ? = 20