Activity Overview
This lesson involves using an interactive area model to solve multiplication and division problems with positive decimals and mixed numbers.
Objectives
- Students will use an interactive area model to multiply and divide positive decimals and mixed numbers.
- Students will use the distributive and commutative properties to multiply decimals and mixed numbers.
- Students will use the idea of division as an inverse operation of multiplication to divide decimals and mixed numbers.
Vocabulary
- factor
- product
- dividend
- divisor
- quotient
- commutative property of multiplication
- distributive property
- inverse
About the Lesson
This lesson involves using an interactive area model to solve multiplication and division problems with positive decimals and mixed numbers.
As a result, students will:
- Make connections between the geometric model and mathematical operations.
- Record their steps and observations on their worksheets.
- Randomly generate new numeric expressions.