School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Title

Seeing Spots and Developing Multiplicative Sense Making

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Cans on a grocery store shelf and Hirst's Capric Acid Amide can illustrate dot arrays, thus helping students understand the distributive property, partial products, and the standard algorithm for multiplication.

Publication Date

10-2013

Publication Title

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School

Publisher

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.19.3.0148

Start Page No.

148

End Page No.

155

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