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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!
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and |
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Look at the colors
and think about it!!
Remember to read what these things mean...
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means "2 chunks of
3" |
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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!
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and |
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Look at the colors
and think about it!!
Remember to read what these things mean...
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means "3 chunks of
2" |
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means "How many
chunks of 2
are in 6?" |
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!
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