Roll the Dice: Skip Counting by Fives

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

• Display a blank Hundreds Chart, and remind your students that multiplication is repeated addition.
• Display a Hundreds Chart with the 5s and 10s column highlighted, and show them the visual pattern made by the numbers that end in fives and zeros.
• Point to the first number on the highlighted hundreds chart.
• Model how to skip count by 5s to the number fifty while pointing to the hundreds chart.
• Point out that the digit in the ones place alternates between 5 and 0.
• 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 Chart again and instruct them to take out their whiteboard and whiteboard marker.
• Give your students each one dice, and instruct them to roll the dice once. Instruct them to multiply the number displayed on the dice 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

• Distribute a copy of the Skip Counting: Roll, Skip, Draw, and Write worksheet to each learner.
• Instruct them to continue rolling the dice and practicing independently. Encourage them to do this without the Hundreds Chart in front of them.