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Strategy Work: Skip Counting to Multiply
Use this lesson to teach your students about the strategy of skip counting. It can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for *Multiply by 5*.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to multiply single-digit numbers by five and check that their answer ends in a five or zero.
Language
Students will be able to describe the strategy of skip counting using sentence frames.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
- Ask students to think about how many eyes they have and hold up that many fingers.
- Walk around the room and model how to skip count the number of eyes in the entire classroom by pointing to each student and saying, "2, 4, 6, 8..."
- Ask students to discuss how you figured out the number so fast. Engage the class in a discussion about the strategy, or the plan of action to solve a problem, you used. Explain that you used the strategy of skip counting, which is when we count forward or backward by a number other than one.