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Bridges Gr 4 Unit 1 Family Overview.pdfHome Connections Support and Resources:
Home Connections Support and Resources:
Multi-Digit Multiplication will be visited in later units. Please REFRAIN from teaching your child the standard algorithm. The standard algorithm will be taught later in the school year after the conceptual strategies are taught.
Methods & Models for Multiplication
Methods & Models for Multiplication
Below you will find resources to help explain the different multiplication models that students can use to solve and build a conceptual understanding of multiplication.
Home Connection Pages:
3, 4 , 5, 6OPEN NUMBER LINE STRATEGY (Watch the flipped video to develop a better understanding of using an open number line)
REPEATED ADDITION (Check out the visuals to develop a better understanding of repeated addition for multiplication)
RATIO TABLE (View these ratio table examples)
TILE ARRAY (View these tile array examples and how they relate to area models)
AREA MODEL (Watch the video to understand area models of multiplication)
Multiplication Fact Strategies
Multiplication Fact Strategies
Below you will find resources to help explain the different multiplication fact strategies that students will use to solve basic multiplication facts.
Home Connection Pages:
9, 10, 11DOUBLES DOUBLES DOUBLES FACTS (X8) (Watch this flipped video of how the Doubles Doubles Doubles strategy works)
TENS MINUS ONE (X9) (Watch this flipped video of how the Tens Minus One strategy works)
Factors & Multiples
Factors & Multiples
Below you will find resources to help explain the doubling and halving strategy that students can use to solve multiplication expressions and build an understanding of the concepts of multiplication.
Home Connection Pages:
7, 13, 15FACTORS (Explore the definition of multiplication words such as factors)
MULTIPLES (Watch this flipped video modeling how to find factors and multiples)
Prime & Composite Numbers
Prime & Composite Numbers
Below you will find resources to help explain the doubling and halving strategy that students can use to solve multiplication expressions and build an understanding of the concepts of multiplication.
Home Connection Pages:
7, 15, 16PRIME VS. COMPOSITE NUMBERS (View this anchor chart to understand the difference between prime and composite numbers)
Measurement
Measurement
Below you will find resources to help explain the different multiplication fact strategies that students will use to solve basic multiplication facts.
Home Connection Pages:
17, 18, 19, 20LINEAR MEASUREMENT (Students learn how to measure length using centimeter rulers not necessarily with the object starting at 0 cm)
MASS & WEIGHT (Explore the difference between mass and weight)
VOLUME & CAPACITY (Explore examples of volume and capacity)
Games for Extra Practice:
Games for Extra Practice:
Reflex Math will help support your child's basic fact fluency. Your child has their own username and password! Please ask their teacher if needed.
Your child can race against the computer or other students by clicking on the correct product in a series of multiplication problems.
Your child can become confident in facts up to 12 x 12 using visual models that stress the conceptual aspects of multiplication.
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