Lesson: Multiplying Whole Numbers

✨ What It Means

Multiplication is a faster way to add the same number again and again.

  • Example:
    3 × 4 = 12
    This means 3 groups of 4 (or 4 + 4 + 4 = 12).

🧠 Key Ideas

  • The numbers you multiply are called factors.

  • The answer is called the product.

  • Multiplication is commutative: that means order doesn’t matter.
    👉 3 × 4 = 12 and 4 × 3 = 12

✅ Examples

  1. 6 × 2 = 12
    (6 groups of 2 = 12)

  2. 9 × 5 = 45
    (9 groups of 5 = 45)

  3. 7 × 3 = 21
    (7 groups of 3 = 21)

Friendly Tip

👉 If you forget a fact, turn it into an addition problem.
Example: 6 × 3 = ?
Think 6 + 6 + 6 = 18.

TIME FOR YOU TO PRACTICE!


  1. Click on the button below. It will pop up to a screen and go to “Learn with an Example” or “Watch a video” first.

  2. Once both of those are complete, measure your skills. Do 20 problems and see how many you can get right.

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