Roll the Dice: Skip Counting by Fives

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Display the hundreds grid, and remind your students that multiplication is repeated addition.
• Highlight the fives and zeros column in the grid, and show them the visual pattern that the numbers that end in fives and zeros shows.
• Explain to students that the second digit from 5 repeats the numbers 0 and 5.
• Point to the first number on the highlighted hundreds grid.
• Model how to skip count by 5s to the number fifty while pointing to the hundreds chart.
• Explain to students that the first number, five, represents how many times the number has been multiplied, which is 1.
• Explain to students that the equation for this problem would be 5 x 1 = 5.
• Ask students to create another equation based on the next highlighted square.
• Ask one volunteer to skip count by five on the chart and produce the number equation.

Guided Practice

• Show the students the blank hundreds grid without any markings.
• Give your students each one dice, and instruct them to roll the dice once. Instruct them to multiply the number that the dice lands on by five.
• Have them say the equations quietly, draw the equation by showing the numbers in groups, and write the equation.
• Once they’ve finished four examples, have them switch with a peer.

Independent working time

• Have your students continue rolling the dice and practicing in this way by themselves.
• Encourage them to do this without the hundreds grid in front of them so that they can practice multiplying without referring to the chart.
• Ask them to write the equations on their worksheets and solve.