Multiple Representations for Multiplication

representations for multiplication

Written by Donna Boucher

Donna has been a teacher, math instructional coach, interventionist, and curriculum coordinator. A frequent speaker at state and national conferences, she shares her love for math with a worldwide audience through her website, Math Coach’s Corner. Donna is also the co-author of Guided Math Workshop.

Assessments don’t have to be long and stressful. They don’t have to include multiple-choice answers. They don’t even have to take tons of planning. They only have to assess whether or not the kiddos mastered the learning objectives. Here’s an assessment my 3rd-grade teachers wanted for the different representations for multiplication.

multiplication representations

Of course, it doesn’t have to be used as an assessment. It would make a great math workstation task!

Click here to grab yours.  Check out this post for a free game for practicing the multiplication square facts (3 x 3, 5 x 5, etc.)!

13 Comments

  1. Jamie

    Thanks Donna – This is exactly what I needed for my 5th and 6th grade remedial math students. They are really struggling with seeing a fraction in multiple ways. This put it all in one place for them without having to create it myself 🙂 Thanks for being awesome!!

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    • Donna Boucher

      You’re so welcome!! Glad it fit in with what you’re doing 🙂

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  2. Brittany

    This is wonderful. Thank you so much for this. Some of my 4th graders are struggling to visualize multiplication and this will really help! Thanks!

    Brittany
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    • Donna Boucher

      You’re welcome, Brittany!

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    • Juneet Lutchmansingh

      Presently working on remediation program in Mathematics. I am sure this will be beneficial.

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  3. Mrs. Dyer

    Thank you! Some of my 5th graders still struggle with this, and I can see extending it to decimal and fraction multiplication as well.

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    • Donna Boucher

      Absolutely! Thanks for sharing a variation. 🙂

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  4. Leslie

    Dumb question: Do they right all of this out themselves or do I do part of it. I am a fairly new homeschool Mom & I am trying to find ways to see if my daughter is understanding the concept of multiplication.
    Thank you,
    Leslie

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    • Donna Boucher

      Not a dumb question at all! This activity was designed to be an assessment, so it assumes the kiddos have worked with manipulatives and models leading up to this.

      Reply
  5. Sara at school

    Hi, I’ve been looking through your blog and finding things to print off – this is one I’m printing to save for the end of the year – hoping we’ll get to a little multiplication by the end of 2nd grade. Thanks for sharing! Sara

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    • Donna Boucher

      Welcome, Sara! Glad you’re finding some useful things! 🙂

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  6. Jennifer

    Thank you so much! This will be fantastic for my class!

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  7. Vidhya

    Thanks a ton, Donna! This is fantastic for my students with LD.

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