Multiplication Strategies

Looking for a fun interactive teaching idea for multiplication strategies? Well look no further as Strategies of Multiplication Equal Groups Multiplication PowerPoint Presentation, for CCSS 3.OA.1, will serve as an exciting lesson plan for 3rd grade elementary school math classrooms. This is a great resource to incorporate into your unit as a guided math lesson, introduction or review exercise, and whole class activity.

This Multiplication Strategies PowerPoint includes 23 colorful instructional slides. This comes as a PowerPoint (ppt) file that can be used on your computer and projected to the classroom screen or smart board. Consider having students take notes in a notebook or journal as a reference sheet for later use.

This PowerPoint serves as a detailed lesson on various strategies to solve multiplication problems. These strategies include multiplication arrays, equal groups, skip counting and repeated addition. This includes slides with multiplication word problems and then slides that use different strategies to solve the problem. At the conclusion of the lesson, there is a quick formative thumbs up and thumbs down assessment that can be used to gauge student mastery of the learning target. The final slide also has a quick exit slip question to further assess student learning. Your students will love to practice and learn about the strategies of multiplication with this product!

I hope you download and enjoy this engaging activity with your students!

Relevant Grade 3 Common Core Standard 3.OA.A.1
Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each.
Cross Reference: Texas TEKS 3.4E