Concentric Circle Multiplication

Are your students ready to focus on the commutative property of multiplication?

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Your students will:

  • Work with a new way to model multiplication.
  • Enjoy the colorful, creative approach to multiplication.
  • Explore the commutative property of multiplication.
  • Practice academic vocabulary in a mathematical setting.
  • Be able to write about what they’ve done and what they’ve learned.

Each activity page focuses on two factors and their product. The models show the same product even though the factors are in a different order. Students color in the pieces of the circles and write an equation for each. They practice math facts while exploring the commutative property of multiplication.

There is a simper version of this activity as well.

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