Children will focus on:
Using trade-first subtraction to solve subtraction problems
Identifying and applying efficient and appropriate strategies for multiplication facts and problems with larger factors
Self-assessing automaticity with multiplication facts
Using multiplication/division diagrams to represent an unknown quantity with a letter and make sense of multiplication and division number stories
Solving number sentences with parentheses
Applying the order of operations to solve multi-step problems
Writing number models to represent two-step number stories
Playing multiplication games to build fact fluency
Vocabulary: Fact power, multiplication/division diagram, order of operations, parentheses, trade-first subtraction