Teach your students to recognize patterns of zeros when multiplying by powers of 10 with exponents.

Allow your students to explore the pros and cons of different strategies used to find the area of rectangles. Use this as a stand alone lesson or as a pre-lesson for the Multiplication and Area in the Community Garden lesson.

Students will work together as well as individually to add up coins to a desired amount. This real life skill will be made fun when students get to physically count out their cents!

Teach your students to use partial products as a strategy to multiply multi-digit numbers.