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3rd grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Unit 1: Lesson 1
Topic A: Multiplication and the meaning of the factors- Equal groups
- Equal groups
- Introduction to multiplication
- Multiplication as equal groups
- Understand equal groups as multiplication
- Multiplication as repeated addition
- Relate repeated addition to multiplication
- Understand multiplication using groups of objects
- Multiply using groups of objects
- Multiplication with arrays
- Understand multiplication with arrays
- Multiply with arrays
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Multiplication with arrays
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Sal uses arrays to show different ways to multiply and get the same solution. Created by Sal Khan.
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- how do you do multiplication(9 votes)
- you can do this 5x4=20(2 votes)
- is addition the same thing as multiplication(3 votes)
- In a way, yes.
Multiplication is simply a faster method of addition. When you multiply a number by another number, you are basically adding a number the same amount of times as the other number calls for, e.g: 5*3 = 5+5+5 and 3*5 = 3+3+3+3+3.
Hope this helps!(10 votes)
- why not show in this video, that making groups of 5 or 7 is not possible?(0 votes)
- It is possible, but in multiplication you always want even groups.(2 votes)
- What number comes after googlplex?(2 votes)
- Really any number that has one or more zeros can come after a googolplex because numbers exist into infinity but if you are asking what the largest named number is then it would be both a googolplexian and like Sajjad-Bin-Samad said the Graham's number.(6 votes)
- so yore saying you multiply 3 groups of 4 3 times fore everything it would be 12?(3 votes)
- Yes it Will be 12(1 vote)
- this video is inchresting like you said(3 votes)
- What if you had to add with multiblecation?(0 votes)
- Its multiplication. Not multiblecation.
Thank you!(5 votes)
- AK 47 Mac 11 got to night(2 votes)
- First off, it is multiply. Not multiplication as that is the plural version of multiply. You essentially multiple by adding the number over and over and over again how ever many times the second number says too.
Think of it this way. Your teacher gives you multiplication problem that reads 5*7=?. You take the 5 and add it together seven times: 5+5+5+5+5+5+5 = ? After you do that, you count up the total number to get 35. 10's and 11's are the easiest because when you multiply anything by 10, then you replace the one with the number you multiplied with. For 11's you replace both ones with the number you multiplied with up to 9 before you have to say: Okay. Whats 99+11? 99+22? 99+33? 99+44? and so on and so fort.(2 votes) - who made math? by the way(2 votes)
Video transcript
So, I have several groups of
these ball-looking things. And let's think about how
many balls are in each group. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 12. And what I want to do is
think about the different ways of dividing these 12 balls into
different numbers of groups. So, for example, I could
view these 12 balls as one, so that's 1 group of 3, 2
groups of 3, 3 groups of 3, 4 groups of 3. So I could view 12 as
being 4 groups of 3. And the way that
we would write that is that 12 is equal
to 4 groups of 3. Or another way of reading this
is that 12 is equal to 4 times 3. If I have 1, 2, 3, 4 groups,
and in each of those groups I have 1, 2, 3,
objects, I'm going to have a total of 12 objects. But that's not the only
way we can get to 12. We could also view
it as 3 groups of 4. So, let's look at that. So we could have it as 1
group of 4, 2 groups of 4, 3 groups of 4. So now we could view 12
as being 3 groups of 4. Or we could say-- let me get the
right tool out-- that 3 times 4 is equal to 12. So, whether we're doing
4 times 3 or 3 times 4, they're both going
to be equal to 12. 4 groups of 3 is
12, 3 groups of 4. But we don't have to stop there. We could also view
12 as, well, we could view it as 2 groups of 6. Let's look at that. So this is 1 group
of 6 right over here. So, that's one 1 of 6. That's another group of 6. So, once again, we could
view this as 2 times 6. 2 times 6 will also get us a 12. Well, what about doing
it as 6 groups of 2? Well, we can draw that
out, too-- 6 groups of 2. So that's 1 group of 2. Let me do that in
a different color. Let me do it in
this purple color. We have 1 group of 2, 2
groups of 2, 3 groups of 2, 4 groups of 2, 5 groups
of 2, and 6 groups of 2. So once again, this
is all different ways of writing 12, something
equivalent to 12. We could write 6 times 2--
6 groups of 2-- 6 times 2 is also equal 12. But we don't have to stop there. We could also literally
view 12 as 1 group of 12. So how would that look? So 1 group of 12. So this whole thing is
just 1 group of 12 here. So we could literally say
1 times 12 is equal to 12. We have one entire group of 12. 1 times 12 is equal to 12. And we could think of
it the other way around. We could view this
as 12 groups of 1. Let me draw that. So 12 groups of 1. This is 1 group of
1, 2 groups of 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, and 12-- 12 groups of 1. So we could also write 12. 12 groups, and in
each one, I have 1. Well, that's still
going to get me to 12.