Imagining dots

Collect resources

You will need:

  • something to write on and something to write with.

Watch the video to learn what to do.

Adapted from Kling and Bay-Williams (TCM, 2015)

Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Instructions

  • After watching the video, how could you use the same ways of thinking to solve 6 x 18? We can also call this 7 eighteens.

  • How many ways can you think of to solve 6 x 18?

Watch the video to learn what to do next.

Transcript

Transcript coming soon.

Discuss/Reflect

  • Michael and Penny both say the arrays differently. How was your way of seeing the dots similar or different to theirs?

  • Create your own array. Are there different ways that the rows and columns could be subitised to find out how many?

  • Try using the area model to represent the different ways you could break apart your array.