Multiplication Strategies and Facts

The video tutorial discusses multiplication fact fluency, emphasizing the importance of recalling facts quickly to free up cognitive resources for more complex math. It introduces strategies for learning multiplication facts, including the identity property, counting by twos and fives, and using tens to simplify nines. The tutorial concludes with a focus on remaining facts and the benefits of fact fluency.

What is the main benefit of having multiplication fact fluency?

• It improves your handwriting.

• It helps in memorizing more facts.

• It allows you to do harder math later.

• It makes you faster at addition.

According to the identity property, what is the result of any number multiplied by one?

• Zero

• The number itself

• One

• Ten

If you have one group of three items, how many items do you have?

• Six

• One

• Nine

• Three

How can you find the product of four times two using a counting strategy?

• Count by fours two times

• Count by fours four times

• Count by twos four times

• Count by twos two times

What is the result of five times three using the counting by fives strategy?

• Ten

• Fifteen

• Twenty

• Twenty-five

What is the quick method to multiply a number by ten?

• Multiply by two

• Add a zero to the number

• Subtract one from the number

• Add one to the number

If ten times seven equals seventy, what is nine times seven?

• Sixty-three

• Seventy

• Seventy-seven

• Eighty

How do you adjust the product of ten times seven to find nine times seven?

• Subtract seven

• Add seven

• Subtract ten

• Add ten

What is the product of ten times three?

• Thirty

• Fifty

• Twenty

• Forty

What is the strategy to remember nine times seven if you forget it?

• Multiply by five and double it

• Multiply by ten and subtract seven

• Multiply by six and add one

• Multiply by eight instead