Introduce the distributive property and explore how a factor can be split into two parts to make multiplication easier, without changing the answer. Students then use flexible partitioning to split factors in different ways and solve the resulting multiplication facts.
What's included:
Teaching slides introducing the distributive property and flexible partitioning
12 practice slides using the distributive property to split a factor to solve a multiplication fact, and flexible partitioning to split factors in different ways to make easier facts