◎●●● Multiplication ●●●◎

Rebekah Chung's Multiplication Webquest!!



 

Introduction

Is multiplication hard? There are easier and funner ways to solve multiplication problems! The purpose of this webquest is to help students to understand different ways to solve multiplication while having fun learning it. This is your mission as third to sixth grade math students. As you navigate through this webquest, your multiplication skills will be strengthened. Have fun and good luck!!

What is Multiplication?

If someone brought a jar of jelly beans to you and asked you to count all of them, how would you count? You could count each jelly bean one by one; but that would take quite a long time. Then you would most likely pile Jelly Beans into groups of two, three, or possibly five, and then, add the groups. If there are 50 Jelly Beans, you can put the jelly beans into group of 5 and form 10 groups of Jelly Beans. If you have 500 Jelly Beans, you can count them by 5's or add 5 one hundred times.

The easiest way to find the total number of items in equal groups is to use multiplication. Multiplication allows you to do repeated addition quickly and efficiently.  The numbers you multiply are called factors. The answer is the product (MathSteps, 1999).

Example: 6(factor) X 8(factor) = 48 (Product)

The mathematical operation in which two numbers are combined together to give a product.

As in the example above, multiplication is often written a x b, but it can also be written a.b or (if quantities are represented by symbols) ab.

Multiplication can be thought of as repeated addition.

Example: 3 X 4 = (4+4+4) or (3+3+3+3) = 12


(The Usborne Math Dictionary, 2006)