Lesson Plan
Multiplication: Solving for Unknown Factors
What's the unknown? In this lesson, your students will become familiar with strategies that can help them solve for the unknown factor in multiplication problems.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to solve for the unknown factor in multiplication problems.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Tell your students that today they are going to learn strategies for solving for the unknown factor involving multiplication problems.
- Ask your students to share division strategies they know.
- As the students share, list the strategies on the board. Your students might offer suggestions such as repeated subtraction or arrays.