This week, the children have started to multiply two digits by two digits. They began by looking at the area model, which uses base 10 to create a physical multiplication model in order to find the answer.
Step 1: build the length and the width using the multiplication calculation
32 x 24
Step 2: multiply the length by the width
Step 3: find the total of each area
Once this has been completed, the children added up the total amounts to find the answer.
600 + 120 + 40 + 8 = 768
Following this, the children began to draw the diagrams.
Although they found this tricky at first, they all challenged themselves and are now confident in finding the answers.
