Monday, December 12, 2016

Distributive property

 The distributive property of multiplication says that you can regroup a multiplication sentence in different ways and still get the same product.
For example 7 x 6 is the same as (5x6)+(2x6)
Five groups of six is 30.
Two groups of six is 12.
30+12 = 42

This is good because if we get stuck on a fact, or it's too big, we can use what we know!

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