Area Models Two Digit Multiplication

It's so important to teach our students different strategies for multiplication.

One strategy for two digit by two digit multiplication is called AREA MODEL.

This means that we decompose the numbers into their expanded form, and then multiply each part.

I created a Kahoot game on two digit by two digit multiplication here:

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/31b883a4-5ac2-40cf-a5a5-2417d2e4704c

For example 23 x 17 becomes 20+3 and 10+7

Then as you can see below

Then I add up all my partial products to get my final product. 200+140+30+21=391

Here's an example I did on our interactive whiteboard.

http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/number-pieces/

Here's one I found online.

Another example.