OK, this is big stuff here...  The key to getting your times tables and being able to use them in bigger math problems later on is to see how multiplication and division fit together!  These are called number families.

Look at these numbers:

What are four ways we can put these numbers together?

Check out these pictures:

Here's the 6:

What does this picture give us?

We get two things!

and

Look at the colors and think about it!!
Remember to read what these things mean...

	means "2 chunks of 3"
	means "How many chunks of 3 are in 6?"

 

How else can we put these numbers together?

Here's the 6 again:

What does this picture give us?

We get two things!

and

Look at the colors and think about it!!
Remember to read what these things mean...

	means "3 chunks of 2"
	means "How many chunks of 2 are in 6?"

 

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OK, now let's take the colors away and see what we came up with!

Here are the numbers:

We can put them together four different ways!