Distributive Property
Associative Property
Multiplication
Word Problems
Multiplication Strategies
100

Use the Distributive Property to find the missing factor. 

7x8=(4x ___ )+(3x8)

What is 8?

100

Find the product
2 x 4 x 6 

What is 48?

100

There are 3 rows of pictures on a wall. Each row has 7 pictures. How many pictures are on the wall?

What is 21?

100

Casey has 3 bags of baseballs. Each bag has 6 baseballs. How many baseballs does he have? Show your work.

What is 18?

100

Find the product of
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = ______

What is 12?

200

Use the Distributive Property to find the missing factor.

6x9=( ___x9)+(2x9)

What is 4?

200

What is the product of 3 x 2 x 8?

What is 48?

200

There are 8 rows of prizes. There are 7 prizes in each row. How many prizes are there?

What is 56?

200

Jermaine has 7 coolers. Each cooler contains 8 bottles of sports drink. How many bottles of sports drink does Jermaine have in all?

What is 56?

200

What is the product of this array?

What is 42?

300

Find two ways to break the array into two smaller arrays. What multiplication equation can you write for each array? What is the total? 


What is (2x4) + (3x4) OR (1x4) + (4x4) OR
(5x2) + (5x2) OR (5x1) + (5x3)?

300

What is the expression that matches this visual?

What is 2 x (5x3)?

300

Ben organizes the blueberry muffins into a 4 x 7 array. How many muffins does Ben have? Show your array to match

What is 28?


300

Jeff makes the generalization that a 10s fact can be broken into two 5s facts. Write an equation to test his generalization.

What is 10 x 3 = (5 + 5)x 3?

300

What is the equation for this number line?

What is 4 x 5 = 20?

400

Use the Distributive Property to find the missing factors. Use counters and arrays to help.

( ___x6)=(4x6)+(1x___)

What is 5? and What is 6?

400
What is the product of each of these problems?


(2 x 5) x 6 = 2 x (5 x 6)

What is 60?

400

Mrs. Smith jogs 4 miles each day. How many total miles does she jog in one week?

What is 28?

400

A bakery uses 3 cups of flour for each loaf of bread. There are 3 loaves of bread on a tray. There are 6 trays on a cart. How many cups of flour are used to make the bread on the cart? Show your work.

What is 3 x 3 x 6 = 36?

400

What is the product of this image?

What is 32?

500

Using the Distributive Property, which of the following expressions are equivalent to 8x5?

There is more than 1 correct answer!
a. (5x5)+(3x5)
b. (3x5)+(5x5)
c. (2x5)+(4x5)
d. (5x8)+(4x8)
e. (5x8)+(3x8)

What is a and b?

500

Solve the problem in 2 different ways
 4 x 3 x 2

What is 4x(3x2) OR (4x3)x2?

500

Then he started to prepare the games for his 4 friends. If each game takes 5 minutes to prepare and he prepared a total of 5 games, how many minutes did it take for Andrew to prepare all the games?

What is 25?

500

A farm stand has cherries on 2 shelves.Each shelf has 4 boxes. Each box has 8 ounces of cherries. How many ounces of cherries are displayed in all? Write an equation that represents the amount.

What is (2 x 4) x 8 = 64?

500

What is the equation for this image?

What is 7 x 5 = 35?