Break Apart to Multiply
3.OA.5 — Apply commutative, associative, and distributive properties as multiplication and division strategies
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What is on the three Break Apart to Multiply worksheets
- Support
- draws an array of dots beside every problem.
- On level
- The grade's own level, with no drawings.
- Challenge
- moves the missing number out of the answer slot.
Example problems from the on-level sheet
- 8 × 9 = 8 × 4 + 8 × ___
- 9 × 6 = 9 × 3 + 9 × ___
- 9 × 6 = 9 × 4 + 9 × ___
Every sheet is generated, so the numbers are different each time you make one.
Before this: 3.OA.4 — determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation with the unknown in any position.