Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- that in multiplication, one factor represents the number of groups and the other factor represents the number of items in each group, and the product represents the total number of items in all of the groups.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use a model or drawing to illustrate the product of two whole numbers.
- Write an expression or equation to represent the product of two whole numbers identifying the number of equal groups and the group size.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- a multiplication problem can be interpreted as x groups of y objects.
Vocabulary
- Equal groups
- Equation
- Expression
- Factor
- Product
- Array
- Row
- Column
- Skip count
