Multiplication and Division Fact Families Multiplication Facts Part 1 - Lesson for Grade 3, Chapter - Division
In this lesson titled "Multiplication and Division Fact Families: Multiplication Facts Part 1," designed for Grade 3 students, learners will embark on an exploratory journey through the interconnected world of multiplication and division. Through engaging activities such as the Multiplication and Division Worksheet, Fossil Fact Families Worksheet, Bugs and Legs Fact Families Worksheet, and Bug Math: Multiplication and Division, students will delve deep into understanding the concept of fact families. Fact families are groups of related mathematical facts that involve the same numbers. By participating in these activities, students will learn to recognize how multiplication and division are inverse operations, meaning they can undo each other.
This lesson is crucial as it lays down the foundational understanding of how numbers interact within the realms of multiplication and division, skills that are essential not just in math but in everyday problem-solving and logical thinking. Understanding fact families helps students improve their computational fluency, allowing them to solve math problems more efficiently and with greater confidence. Furthermore, this knowledge serves as a building block for more complex arithmetic and algebraic concepts they will encounter in future grades, making it an indispensable part of their mathematical journey.
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Activity 1 / Multiplication and Division Worksheet
This multiplication and division worksheet for 3rd grade offers kids a way to solve tricky problems with the aid of pictures to help them understand the process they take to solve the problems.
Kids simply view the vibrant pictures of springtime bugs to determine the answer to each problem! -
Activity 2 / Fossil Fact Families Worksheet
Kids love dinosaurs, so what better way to learn about fact families than with some fun prehistoric friends? This PDF worksheet will let your children use picture arrays to see the relationships between multipliers and dividends when it comes to fact families. When kids have automaticity with their multiplication facts, solving problems and seeing quick answers in division equations is a natural progression, and these picture representations will help them see the relationships between multiplication and division fact families.
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Activity 3 / Bugs and Legs Fact Families Worksheet
Learning about fact families and recognizing the patterns in multiplication and division problems is what helps your young math students gain automaticity and efficiency in their computation skills. This colorful free worksheet will let them use bugs and insects to familiarize themselves with fact families, and see how multipliers and multiplicands are related to division problems. They won't even realize they're doing math!
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Activity 4 / Bug Math: Multiplication and Division
