School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications
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.
Repository Citation
Matney, Gabriel T. and Daugherty, Brooke N., "Seeing Spots and Developing Multiplicative Sense Making" (2013). School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 3.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/teach_learn_pub/3
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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