Year 3

Multiplication: reSolve Market

Students learn that the array is a powerful representation of multiplication: rows and columns represent factors, and these factors can be multiplied to find the product.

'Multiplication: reSolve Market' is one of our new teaching sequences for V9

  • On the 'Sequence overview' tab you'll find all the tasks in this sequence, a suggested implementation plan and curriculum alignment.
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Tasks in this sequence

Year 3

Task 1 • Finding multiplication

Students learn that multiplication is about ‘how many’ groups and ‘how much’ in each group.

Task 1
Multiplication: reSolve Market
Year 3

Task 2 • Mangoes and apples

Students learn that the array is a powerful representation of the ‘how many’ groups and ‘how much in each group’ structure of multiplication.

Task 2
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Year 3

Task 3 • Making arrays

Students complete an activity that builds their understanding of the array as a representation of multiplication.

Task 3
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Teacher looking at students' work
Year 3

Task 4 • Hidden fruit

Students learn that multiplying ‘how many’ by ‘how much’ gives the whole.

Task 4
Multiplication: reSolve Market
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Task 5 • Rolling arrays

Students play a game to build their understanding that multiplying how many by how much gives the whole.

Task 5
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Student rolls a die with counters on their gameboard
Year 3

Task 6 • Lemon arrays

Students learn that related multiplication and division facts can be recorded as a fact family.

Task 6
Multiplication: reSolve Market
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Task 7 • Making fact families

Students continue to build their understanding that related multiplication and division facts can be recorded as a fact family.

Task 7
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Students take counters out of a bag
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Task 8 • Finding fact families

Students revisit the reSolve Market picture and use fact families to record the multiplication.

Task 8
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Students thinking

Sequence implementation

This time plan is just one way that you might choose to implement this sequence. We have based this plan on 50-minute lessons, with some tasks split across two lessons. The timing provided in the tasks’ documentation align with this implementation advice.

 Week 1Week 2
Monday

Task 1 • Finding multiplication

  • Launch
  • Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Task 6 • Lemon arrays

  • Launch
  • Explore 1
  • Connect
Tuesday

Task 2 • Mangoes and apples

  • Launch
  • Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Task 6 • Lemon arrays

  • Explore 2
  • Connect
  • Summarise
Wednesday

Task 3 • Making arrays

  • Complete the activity Making arrays

Task 7 • Making fact families

  • Complete the activity Making fact families activity
Thursday

Task 4 • Hidden arrays

  • Launch
  • Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise

Task 8 • Finding fact families

  • Launch
  • Explore
  • Connect
  • Summarise
Friday

Task 5 • Rolling arrays

  • Complete the activity Rolling arrays

Task 5 • Rolling arrays

  • Complete the activity Rolling arrays

 

Curriculum and syllabus alignment

Achievement standards

Students use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving single—digit multiplication and division, recalling multiplication facts for twos, threes, fours, fives and tens, by using a range of strategies.

Australian Curriculum V9 alignment

Number

Algebra