Week 1 of 8
Week 1
3rd Grade → 4th Grade · Multiplication 2 5 and Main idea
Math
Multiplication: 2 to 5
Multiplication facts with factors from 2 to 5. Early third grade.
The mistake to watch for. Skip counting up from zero for every fact — correct but too slow to support division and fractions later.
How to help. Anchor on the 5s and 2s first, which children already know from clocks and counting. Then 3s and 4s can be reasoned from them.
A worked example
Try 4 × 6. That is four groups of 6: 6, 12, 18, 24. So 4 × 6 = 24. You can also double 6 to get 12, then double again to get 24.
Words for this week
- multiply
- To add the same number again and again, in a faster way.
- product
- The answer you get when you multiply.
- times
- The word we say for multiply. 3 times 4 means 3 × 4.
- group
- A set of things put together, like 4 groups of 3 apples.
- double
- Two times as much. The double of 6 is 12.
Read this week
Bee
A short animals article from our Learn library, chosen for this reading level. Read it together, then ask your child to tell you one new thing they learned.