Multiplication
Properties
Properties
This property states that when you multiply zero with any number, the product is zero.
What is the Zero Property of Multiplication?
Jane donates $12 to the food bank. Monica donates triple that amount. Jasmine donates double the amount Monica donates. How much does Jasmine donate to the food bank?
What is $72?
A store made $205 every day for 78 days. How much money did they make?
What is $15,990?
This property states that when you multiply by one with any number, the product is that number.
What is the Identity Property of Multiplication?
A toy store sold 224 toys on Thursday. On Friday, they sold 16 times as many toys as Thursday. How many toys did they sell altogether?
What is 3,808 toys?
A roofing company charged 14 different families $697 to replace their roofs. How much money did the roofing company make?
What is $9,758?
This property allows you to change the order of the numbers you multiply and the product will remain the same.
What is the Commutative Property of Multiplication?
There are 23 students in Mr. Byars' class. Each student sold 5 parent association memberships for $6 each. How much money did the class collect?
What is $690?
Emily stayed for 13 nights at a hotel. Each night cost $249. What was the total cost to stay at the hotel?
What is $3,237?
This property allows you to group factors to multiply and how you group them does not change the product.
What is the Associative Property of Multiplication?
A candy company packs and ships three types of candy. This chart shows the number of cartons of each kind of candy shipped last month.
Buckeye Melts 24 boxes per carton...148 cartons
Ooey-Gooey Bars 18 boxes per carton...224 cartons
Chocolate Tassies 36 boxes per carton...112 cartons
Which types of candy were an equal number of boxes shipped?
What is Ooey-Gooey Bars and Chocolate Tassies?
Grace collected 138 tickets at a fair on Thursday. She collected 42 times that amount on Saturday. How many tickets did she collect on Saturday?
What is 5,796 tickets?
This property tells you to distribute the number outside the parentheses to each number inside the parentheses by multiplying.
What is the Distributive Property of Multiplication?
Mario collects sports cards and displays them in 16 collectors’ albums. Each album has 45 pages with 9 cards per page. How many sports cards does Mario have in his collection?
What is 6,480 sports cards?
Jake collected 732 crates of items for charity. Each crate has 54 items. How many items did Jake collect for charity?
What is 39,528 items?