Let’s Learn About Different Multiplication Strategies!

Are your students starting to learn about the concept of multiplication? This math skill is an important foundation for students as it will help them with so many other topics and areas in the future. If you are looking for a resource that displays different multiplication strategies, look no further!

Decorate your classroom with these easy reminders for your mathematicians! The nine multiplication strategies included in this poster set are:

• repeated addition
• array
• equal groups
• number line
• commutative law
• doubling and halving
• doubling
• use friendly facts
• adding known facts

How to Make the Most of Your Multiplication Strategies Poster Set

1. Print the posters on and display them in your classroom for students to reference when doing independent work.
2. Print the posters, slip them into a clear sleeve and use them in your guided groups as a reminder.
3. Print the posters, slide them into a clear sleeve and hang them on a ring as a reference tool for a learning center. 

We’ve also come up with bonus ways to turn posters into interactive tools that really make your lessons stick! 

📝 Create a fill-in-the-blank worksheet by removing selections of text.  

📂 Place copies in students’ homework folders for reference. 

🧠 Test students’ memories by showing them the poster, then hiding it and having them tell you what they remember.

✅ Incorporate posters into your lesson wrap-up: students write on a sticky note what they learned from the lesson and place it on the poster. 

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