Learning about multiplication

Year 1 have been using lots of apparatus to learn how to multiply. The x sign means ‘lots of.’ We have looked around the school for pictures of multiplications, called ‘arrays.’ For instance a bar of chocolate, an egg box, a piece of lego or a cup cake tin, can be used to show how a multiplication works eg 2 rows of chocolate with 5 segments in each row. We can count in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and this helps us to work out how many segments of chocolate there are altogether. Year 1 are top mathematicians!