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по Tyler Trettin 5 лет назад

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Multiplication

Teaching multiplication to elementary students can be approached through engaging methods tailored to different age groups. For younger students, simple multiplication problems can be introduced using tangible objects like blocks, helping them visualize and understand the concept of repeated addition.

Multiplication

Piaget's concrete operational stage. Deductive reasoning and can reason through transformation Once they are able to reason comfortably with addition then they are ready to move onto multiplication.

Multiplication

Interdisciplinary Connections

Assessment

Vygotsky- Self Talk & Guided Participation Kids talk them selves through problems and I just help guide them. This is the ultimate goal.

Post

Have them show their understanding of the why.

Pre

What's their understanding of multiplication?

Do they understand the why behind solving the equation?

Example of the "why".

23 multiplied by 17. Why when solving this problem do we put a two over the two in 23. What does it represent? Why do we put a zero, in the second row of numbers? This is the kind of understanding I want from the students. I don't want them to just know how to do it, I want them to know why they are doing each step.

What is multiplication?

Multiplication is repeated addition.

25*4 is the same as 25 + 25 + 25 +25

Using this example I would teach the students how to multiply using the standard algorithm.

Over generalization - If I taught my students that you must carry every time you multiply a number together then that would be a over generalization.

Under generalization - If I were to say that you only need to carry sometimes without explaining the reasoning, that would be under generalizing.

Students may over or under generalize in their algorithms by having faulty algorithms.

Example: If you don't explain what the numbers represent when carrying they may just add the carried over number to the ten place and multiply that number by the number on the bottom. This would be under generalizing because they know that they need to carry but not what the number represents.

----->2 37 * 4 ______ 208

One way I would teach my students how to do this is through blocks.

Giving the students a problem like 106* 17. This problem would be very hard with blocks and would take forever.

We will use 10 * 5. Using blocks of ten I would ask them to solve the problem. They would see that they need 5 blocks of ten and count the total number of blocks to get their answer.

Elementary Student

Girls
Tell stories with math problems.

If Jenna has two closets with 10 shirts in each closet, how many shirts does she have total?

Boys
Give them real world scenarios.

If there are 3 cars and each car has 4 tires, how many tires are there all together?

Ages 7 to 11
Piaget's concrete operational stage.

Child is able to use logical thought when solving problems.

For the older kids I would advance to harder concepts such as multiplying two digit numbers together, which introduces carrying.
For the younger students I would start with simple multiplication problems and have them use blocks.