Monday, 31 August 2015

Happy last week of summer!
Thank you to everyone who followed the blog over the summer. Enjoy the remaining days of summer vacation. See you next week..... don't forget to pop by to say hello.
So long Fabulous Fours!





Monday, 24 August 2015

Happy ninth week of summer!
Use dice and pencil and paper, you can play this simple game to review multiplication.
Think about it..... if you wanted to find the greatest product, how would you arrange the digits?


Another interesting way to multiply is explained below. This is an example of what mathematicians call the DISTRIBUTIVE property of multiplication.



If you've been following the blog all summer, you should have a good idea of how to multiply larger numbers.

A few review questions......