2S Maths - multiplication

Lesson: Maths

Over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at multiplication using the 2, 5 and 10 times tables.

We learnt that when we muliply it is as if we are adding equal groups together and so the answer will always be the same as or greater than the number in each group.  We also learnt that we can change the order of the numbers in a multiplication equation so, for example, 6 x 5 = 30 and 5 x 6 = 30 so 6 x 5 = 5 x 6.

We used arrays to show groups of and practised this using concrete resources such as multilink and counters.