Month: August 2019

Educational Strategies

3 Simple Steps with Multiplication Facts for Kids that Teach How To Multiply Large Numbers

Step-by-step area multiplication strategy solving 86 times 97 using area boxes and skip counting for students who don’t know all their multiplication facts.

There’s an Easier Way for Children to Learn Multiplication! For years, I have watched children struggle with Multiple-Digit Multiplication, which begins with problems like, 97 x 86, then quickly increases in difficulty to problems like, 5,984 x 763, and finally culminates in multiplying decimals like 5.83 x 7.3.  Memorizing all the multiplication facts can be …