Fact Families
Word Problems
Associative Property
Distributive Property
Basic Facts
100
What number would go in the blank?
8 x __ = 56
7
100
There are 7 days in a week. How many days are in 6 weeks?
______ x _____ = ______
7 x 6 = 42
100
Fill in the missing word: The Associative Property of Multiplication says that you can change the grouping of the factors or the order you multiply them in and still get the ___ product.
same
100
True or False: The Distributive Property states that a multiplication fact can be broken into two smaller facts to make it easier.
True
100
3 x 5 = ___
15
200
Write two multiplication facts that relate the following numbers: 63, 7, 9
7 x 9 = 63
9 x 7 = 63
200
Show me the equation you would use to solve this problem, and then solve it.
There are 6 students. Each student has 2 folders with 3 papers in each folder. How many papers are there in all?
(2 x 3) x 6
= 6 x 6
= 36 papers total
200
Fill in the blank:
(4 x 3) x 2 = (2 x 3) x ____
(2 x 3) x 4
200
Use the distributive property to break 3 x 7 into smaller facts.
3 x 7 = (3 x 4) + (3 x 3)
200
9 x 4 = _____
36
300
Write two multiplication facts that relate the following numbers: 9, 45, 5
9 x 5 = 45
5 x 9 = 45
300
Joel saw 5 ladybug legs at the park. Each ladybug has 6 legs. How many ladybugs legs did Joel see at the park?
5 x 6 = 30
300
Use the associative property to rewrite
6 X 3 X 2
3 x 2 x 6
300
What are two numbers that could fill in the blanks?
7 X 5 = (__ X 5) + (__ X 5)
7 X 5 = (2 X 5) + (5 X 5)
300
6 x 6 = _____
36
400
1. How many rows?
2. How many columns?
3. Write the equation on your board!
_____ x _____ = _____
1. 3
2. 5
3. 3 x 5 = 15
400
Amy broke up a large array into 3 x 8 and 2 x 8.
What large array did she start with?
_____ x ______
5 x 8
400
(8 x 4) x 2 = (4 x 2) x ____
(4 x 2) x 8
400
What facts can you break 6 X 8 into to make it easier?
6 x 8 = (4 x 8) + (2 x 8)
= 32 + 16
= 48
400
8 x 7 = _____
56
500
1. How many rows?
2. How many columns?
3. Write the equation on your board!
_____ x _____ = _____
1. 7
2. 5
3. 7 x 5 = 35
500
In art class, there were 2 boxes of paint on each table. There were 4 tables. There were 5 paints in each box. How many paints were there?
_____ x _____ x _____ = ______
2 x 4 x 5 = 40
500
(5 x 2) x 1 = (1 x 5) x ____
(1 x 5) x 2
500
There are 4 caterpillars in the garden. Each caterpillar has 6 feet. How many caterpillar feet are there in all? Use the distributive property to break this problem into two smaller problems and solve.
(4 x 3) + (4 x 3)
= 12 + 12
= 24
or
(4 x 2) + (4 x 4)
500
9 x 9 = ___
81