What Are Some Different Ways to Teach Multiplication? 

There are many different ways to teach your young learners about the concept of multiplication. Strategies such as repeated addition, using arrays and skip counting are all methods to help your students understand the concept of multiplication. 

Another common method that is used is demonstrating how the ‘x’ symbol stands for ‘groups of’ and can be represented with a visual model. By drawing groups with an equal number of objects in each group, this can be used to represent a multiplication problem. For example, if you have 3 circles, each with 5 stars inside, this represents the problem 3 x 5.

Equal Groups Practise Pages

Teach Starter has created an engaging colour-by-number worksheet to help your students master their understanding of relating equal groups to multiplication problems. With this teacher-created resource, you will receive a color-by-number worksheet, a question page, colour guide and answer key. 

To complete this activity, students must look at each equal group model and then look at the color guide to find the matching multiplication fact. Students will then solve the problem and colour the product according to the colour listed. When guiding your students through this activity, remember that the ‘x’ stands for ‘groups of.’

How to Get Your Multiplication Worksheet

If you are ready to get your hands on this printable maths worksheet, head on over to the green download button! Here, you will find a quick-print PDF file as well as the editable Google Slides version. If selecting the Google Slides option, please note that you will first be prompted to make a copy of this resource to your personal drive before accessing it.

This resource was created by Brittany Kellogg, a Teach Starter Collaborator.

Looking for More Multiplication Activities?

Don’t stop there! We’ve got more activities to shorten your lesson planning time:  

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Equal Groups Multiplication Activity

Engage your students with a hands-on activity to practise making equal groups to represent multiplication.

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Group It Many Ways – Multiplication Activity

Promote hands-on learning with this activity, where students will practise making equal groups to represent multiplication.

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Multiplication Array Puzzles

Guide your students to match arrays, multiplication facts and repeated addition sentences with this set of puzzles.