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Multiplication Lesson Plans

Is it time for your students to learn multiplication? Or are you a teacher trying to learn ways to make useful multiplication strategies and times tables exhilarating? Education.com's multiplication lesson plans help young kids get a firm grasp on the basics of multiplication. After they've mastered the basics, we also offer lesson plans that help advance their multiplication skills.

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Repeated Addition and Multiplication

Repeated Addition and Multiplication

Teach your students how repeated addition relates to multiplication. This lesson builds number sense and supports a conceptual understanding of multiplication.

Year 4

Maths

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It's Time to Celebrate the Chinese New Year!

It's Time to Celebrate the Chinese New Year!

Celebrating the Chinese New Year is fun for family and friends! Use this lesson to teach your students some of the holiday's traditions and events as they practise solving word problems, which involve time and all four maths operations.

Year 4

Maths

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Finding Area

Looking for a fun way to reinforce multiplication and area finding skills? This hands-on lesson gives students a chance to create their own multiplication equations by making rectangular models.

Year 4

Maths

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Fraction Stories

Fraction Stories

Multiplying with fractions may seem easy to your students, but challenge them with this engaging lesson that requires them to write their own word problems!

Year 6

Maths

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Fraction of a Whole

Fraction of a Whole

Teach your students to use bar models and multiplication to find a fraction of a whole number.

Year 5

Maths

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Let's Play Ball

Let's Play Ball

Students will have a ball with this data collection lesson plan where they learn about collecting and plotting data on a chart and line plot.

Year 4

Maths

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Array Models in Multiplication

Array Models in Multiplication

This lesson allows students to explore the concept of multiplication hands on. Kids will also come to understand why multiplication is important as well as how to solve multiplication problems using array models.

Year 4

Maths

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3-Digit Multiplication

3-Digit Multiplication

Teach your students to multiply a 3-digit factor by a 1-digit factor using base ten models and the standard algorithm.

Year 5

Maths

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Multiplication Stories

Multiplication Stories

Maths can be made into short stories! Inspire your students to get creative with this lesson plan that will help them practise making and solving word problems.

Year 3

Maths

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Multiplication with Area Models

Multiplication with Area Models

Teach your students to use an area model to solve multiplication problems with a two-digit factor.

Year 4

Maths

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Growing by Powers of Ten

Growing by Powers of Ten

Make multiplying by powers of ten more accessible to your students by focusing on patterns in the number of zeros!

Year 5

Maths

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Doubling

Teach your students to double two-digit numbers using decomposition as a strategy.

Year 6

Maths

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Modeling Multiplication Word Problems

Modeling Multiplication Word Problems

Teach your students to organise and solve multiplication word problems using a part-part-whole model.

Year 6

Maths

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Multiplication with Partial Products

Multiplication with Partial Products

Teach your students to use partial products as a strategy to multiply multi-digit numbers.

Year 6

Maths

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Multiplication Cups Competition

Multiplication Cups Competition

Motivate your students by engaging them in a competition! In this lesson, your students will review and practise multiplication strategies.

Year 3

Maths

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Into the Wild: Multiplication Word Problems

Into the Wild: Multiplication Word Problems

Your students will be at the top of the pack with this lesson that has them identify important information within a word problem.

Year 5

Maths

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Arranging Numbers in Multiple Ways

Arranging Numbers in Multiple Ways

In this lesson, students use cubes to build arrays to represent factor pairs of numbers within 100. They use this understanding to identify multiples as well.

Year 5

Maths

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Who Has More?: Comparing Decimals

Who Has More?: Comparing Decimals

Get your little mathematicians excited with this fun lesson about comparing decimals. It features helpful review activities and a game that's sure to keep students engaged.

Year 6

Maths

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More Words, More Problems

More Words, More Problems

Are your students struggling with multiplication when it comes to word problems? In this lesson, students will see multiplication problems as a comparison and use word problems to create multiplication equations.

Year 5

Maths

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Multiplication: Solving for Unknown Factors

Multiplication: Solving for Unknown Factors

What's the unknown? In this lesson, your students will become familiar with strategies that can help them solve for the unknown factor in multiplication problems.

Year 4

Maths

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Number Line Multiplication

Number Line Multiplication

Teach your students to use number lines as a strategy to multiply two single-digit factors.

Year 4

Maths

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Breaking Apart to Put Back Together

Breaking Apart to Put Back Together

Make multiplication a snap with this hands-on maths lesson! Your students will learn how to easily multiply large numbers using base-ten blocks and the strategy of breaking apart by place value.

Year 5

Maths

Lesson plan

Back to School Supply Shopping

Back to School Supply Shopping

It’s the beginning of the school year and your class needs supplies! Can your students successfully shop for everything they need and stay on budget? Find out in this real-world application of multiplying whole numbers by decimals.

Year 6

Maths

Lesson plan

Multiplying One-Digit Numbers By 10

Multiplying One-Digit Numbers By 10

Let students stretch their problem solving skills in this lesson that teaches them how to solve problems where one-digit numbers are multiplied by multiples of 10.

Year 4

Maths

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Guess the Operation

Guess the Operation

Want to strengthen your student’s multiplication and division skills? This lesson uses fact families to help students practise those skills.

Year 4

Maths

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