options: Geometry: students learn to classify geometric figures by their properties, and understand and compare the relationships between them. Students develop and use formulas to compute lengths, areas, and volumes, and they use transformations to generate new shapes and compare existing ones. Geometry can be studied with and without coordinates.

Number Systems and Quantity: students learn to understand the complex number system and reason quantitatively.

Operations & Algebra: students learn to solve problems using algebraic thinking and operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. They may learn to identify and explain arithmetic patterns, evaluate or manipulate numerical expressions, and reason with equations and inequalities.

Statistics & Probability: students learn to analyze and produce data distributions, and build understanding of univariate and bivariate data. They learn to interpret data, make statistical inferences, justify conclusions, understand rules of probability, and use probability to make decisions.

Functions: students learn to define, use, and evaluate functions to model relationships between quantities.

Ratios & Proportional Relationships: students learn to recognize, describe, represent, and reason with ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and percent.

Measurement & Data: students learn to work with data and measure attributes such as time, money, length, area, and volume. They may learn to compare measurements to operations and convert between different units of measure.

Number & Operations in Base Ten: students learn to work with the base-ten system and build place value understanding.

Modeling: students learn to choose and use appropriate mathematics and statistics to analyze real-world empirical situations, improve decisions, and report on their conclusions and the reasoning behind them.

Number & Operations - Fractions: students learn to understand fractions as numbers and may work with them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Counting & Cardinality: students learn to know number names and the count sequence, count to tell the number of objects, and compare numbers.
problem_activity: Narrative
The purpose of this activity is for students to consider the numbers when they choose a strategy to find the value of a product. Some students might choose to use the same strategy for any multiplication problem. In this activity, the numbers were chosen to encourage students to choose different strategies in order to generate discussion about why certain multiplication problems lend themselves to different strategies.
When students choose a multiplication strategy based on the factors, using the associative and commutative properties of multiplication and the distributive property, along with known facts, they make use of structure to facilitate their calculations (MP7).
MLR7 Compare and Connect.
Lead a discussion comparing, contrasting, and connecting the different strategies students chose to solve the problems. Ask, “Are there any benefits or drawbacks to one strategy compared to another?” and “Why did the different approaches lead to the same outcome?”
Advances: Conversing
Launch
Groups of 2
“Sometimes we use different strategies to solve problems, depending on the numbers in the problem. Without solving, look at the numbers in each expression and think about the strategy you would use to find the value.”
1–2 minutes: quiet think time
“Choose 2 problems you would solve using a different strategy and describe the strategy to your partner. Explain why you chose different strategies.”
1–2 minutes: partner work time
Activity
“Find the value of each expression. If you find the value mentally, record the steps you used in your head to arrive at the product.”
5–10 minutes: independent work time
Monitor for students who used different strategies for the same problem. For example, for
\(14\times25\)
, some students might multiply
\(14\times20\)
and
\(14\times5\)
and some students might double 25 and halve 14 and find
\(7\times50\)
.
8–10 minutes: partner work time
Student Facing
Find the value of each expression. Explain or show your reasoning.
\(14\times3\)
\(14\times101\)
\(14\times25\)
\(14\times9\)
\(14\times136\)
Student Response
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Activity Synthesis
Invite students to share their strategies for finding the value of
\(14 \times 101\)
.
“Is there a mental strategy you can use to find the value of this product?” (Yes. I know
\(14 \times 100\)
is 1,400 and then I can add 14 to that.)
Invite students to share their strategies for finding the value of
\(14 \times 136\)
.
“Which strategy did you use to find the value of
\(14 \times 136\)
? Why?” (I used the standard algorithm because I did not see a quick mental strategy for finding the value.)


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