You can also teach the shortcut of writing the factor twice, but this only works for multiplying 11 by 1-9. If students are multiplying 10 x 11, they can think of it as 10 x 10 (100) and then add one more group of 10. Now that your students have a conceptual understanding of multiplication (by mastering 2,5, and 10), it’s a good time to teach x1 and x0. Yes, it’s easy to memorize these facts, but they can be difficult to visualize. And now that they know how to multiply by 10, they can learn that multiplying by 5 is half of multiplying by 10. They know how to skip count by 10, group in tens, and work with base ten blocks.Ĭontinue with x 5. 10 is a foundational number that students have a lot of experience with. Kids have experience with doubling and grouping in pairs, so it makes sense to start with x 2. The reason I recommend starting with x 2 is to give students a better concept of multiplication. Most teachers start with x 0 and x 1 but the best facts to begin with are actually x 2's. Wondering which multiplication facts to learn first and in what order?

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12 by 12 multiplication chart