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Episode 106
Published 3 years, 6 months ago
Description
Most students can scale up by ten as they begin to multiply larger numbers and that is a great starting place for students. In this episode Pam and Kim discuss a more sophisticated way of scaling numbers in multiplication problems.
Talking Points:
- How beginning learners will use multiplying by 10 in double digit multiplication problems.
- How more sophisticated students deal with smaller numbers then scale up.
- How this applies to middle school students.
- How can Five is Half of 10 be used with more sophisticated thinking?