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Session 4: Developing Fluency with Multiplication and Division
How do students learn to multiply and divide? Why do some students have trouble with their “multiplication facts”? And what types of instructional moves can help close these gaps and strengthen efficiency? This session looks at the development of multiplicative thinking through the years, the role that models can play in building understanding and fluency and important mathematical ideas (unitizing, the distributive and associative properties, our place value system) and the role they all play in developing fluency with multiplication and division.