Lesson plan
Multiplication Cups Competition
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to apply their multiplication strategies to different activities.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Ask your students to give some strategies they use for multiplication.
- Write their responses on the board.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling
(10 minutes)- Review the array model strategy by showing 3 x 2 as an array of 3 rows of dots in two columns.
- Show your students the repeated addition strategy, where 4 x 3 is also 4 + 4 + 4.
- Demonstrate how to use the number line model strategy. Show your students that they can practice 4 x 3 by jumping on the number line 4 steps at a time for three jumps.
- Use examples and draw them on the board.
Guided Practice
(10 minutes)- Give each student a different multiplication problem on an index card.
- Instruct your students to solve the problem on a blank sheet of paper using a strategy discussed previously.
- Have your students raise their papers up when they are finished.
- As a group, work out three of the students' problems.
Independent working time
(10 minutes)- Divide your students into pairs.
- Hand each pair of students a set of cups with multiplication problems written on them.
- Challenge your students to answer as many questions as possible.
- Direct your students to stack the cups if they get the answer right. Remind them to be honest when they are self-checking.
- Ask your students to test each other using the strategies reviewed earlier.
Differentiation
- Enrichment: Make cups without the answers on the inside, and have your students play the game with these. Make a puzzle with the answers to multiplication questions.
- Support: Use manipulatives with your students so that they can visually see how multiplication involves grouping.
Assessment
(10 minutes)- Give your students clipboards and paper.
- Set up four different stations around the classroom with a multiplication question at each station.
- Instruct your students to number their papers from one to four. Have them write the answers to the questions at the stations corresponding to the number.
- Give your students 2 minutes at each station.
- At the end, collect their papers and evaluate their multiplication skills.
Review and closing
(5 minutes)- As an exit ticket, have students write down an example of a time that they had to use multiplication in their daily lives.
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