Description:
Various methods to approach the multiplication word problem
- There are four boxes of chocolates. Each box
has 10 chocolates. How many chocolates
are there in total?Repeated addition
- Adding 10 (the number of chocolates in each box)
four times (the number of boxes)
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40
- Adding 10 (the number of chocolates in each box)
- Multiplicationas a comparison
- Multiply the number of chocolates in each box (10)
as many as the number of boxes (4)10 × 4 = 40
- Multiply the number of chocolates in each box (10)
- Arrays
Having 4 rows of chocolates with 10 chocolates
in each row will lead to,
4 × 10 = 40
- Equation
- Chocolates = Number of boxes × Chocolates per boxChocolates = 4 × 10Chocolates = 40