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Developing Multiplication Fluency

The document provides strategies for developing fluency with multiplication facts arranged from 1 to 9. It recommends starting with facts involving 1, 2, 5 and 10 and progressing to more difficult facts involving larger numbers. Mnemonic devices or thinking strategies are provided for each number to help memorize the facts, such as doubling or tripling and adding, counting by a number, or multiplying by 10 and adjusting the answer.

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Developing Multiplication Fluency

The document provides strategies for developing fluency with multiplication facts arranged from 1 to 9. It recommends starting with facts involving 1, 2, 5 and 10 and progressing to more difficult facts involving larger numbers. Mnemonic devices or thinking strategies are provided for each number to help memorize the facts, such as doubling or tripling and adding, counting by a number, or multiplying by 10 and adjusting the answer.

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Developing Multiplication Fact Fluency

Strategy

Description

Examples

Twos

Double the number.


OR
This is Doubles from addition!

2*8 Think: Double 8, so 8+8 is 16.

Fives

Count by fives.
OR
Multiply by 10 and halve that.

5*6 Think: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30


Thats six 5s so the answer is 30.
OR
10 *6 is 60, half of 60 is 30.

Zero

If I have 0 groups of anything, I always have 0.


Think: The answer is always 0!

0*5 Think: Its always 0.

Ones

Nines

If I have 1 group of any number, I just have that


number.
Think: 1 times any number is that number.
Multiply by 10 and subtract the number.
OR
Think one less than the number, put the new
number in the tens place. The ones column is the
number that added to the new tens place equals
nine.

1*6 Think: It is just the number, so it


is 6!
9*7 Think: 10*7 is 70, subtract 7 to
get 63.
OR
One less than 7 is 6, so 60.
6+3 is 9 so 60+3 makes 63.

Threes

Double plus another.

3*6 Think: Double 6 is 12, add 6


again, thats 18.

Fours

Double and double again.


OR
Double and then add the double to itself

4*7 Think: Double 7 is 14 and double


14 is 28.
OR
Double 7 is 14, so 14 and 14 is 28.

Sixes

Triple the number and then double it.


OR
Multiply by five and add another.

6*7 Think: 3*7 is 21, double 21 and


get 42.
OR
5*7 is 35, add another 7 and get 42.

Eights

Double the number three times.

8*6 Think: 2*6 is 12, 2*12 is 24, and


2*24 is 48.

Sevens

Multiply by five and add the double.

7*8 Think: 5*8 is 40, 2*8 is 16,


40+16 is 56.

***The following order of developing fact fluency is recommended by John Van de Walle***

X
1

1
1

2
2

3
3

4
4

1
0
1
2

1
2
1
5
1
8

1
2
1
6
2
0
2
4

5
5
1
0
1
5
2
0
2
5
3
0

6
6
1
2
1
8
2
4
3
0
3
6

7
7
1
4
2
1
2
8
3
5
4
2

8
8
1
6
2
4
3
2
4
0
4
8

9
9
1
8
2
7
3
6
4
5
5
6

Developing Multiplication Fact Fluency


7

1
4
1
6
1
8

2
1
2
4
2
7

2
8
3
2
3
6

3
5
4
0
4
5

4
0
4
4
4
8

4
9
5
6
6
3

5
6
6
4
7
2

6
3
7
2
8
1

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