Multiplication: A Range of Strategies for Solving 8 × 6
By Cindy Aossey (KCM) & Funda Gonulates
When students experience a strategy-based approach to learning their basic facts, they not only
develop automaticity, but they notice number relationships and patterns, make sense of properties of
operations, and build strong foundations that will support them in solving more complex problems. In
this video, we walk through a range of fact fluency strategies, including doubling, adding a group,
breaking apart, and compensation, using concrete, semi-concrete, and abstract representations to
support reasoning. This video is intended to help teachers to more deeply understand these various
strategies that can be used when solving single-digit multiplication tasks and how to use different
representations to support student thinking.
Targeted Standards: KY.3.OA.7
