Session 7 Math Activity: Multiplication of Decimals

Physical Materials:

  • Building a System of Tens Casebook
  • Base-10 blocks
  • Interlocking cubes
  • Colored pencils
  • Graph paper 

Digital Materials:

Instructions:

  1. Watch the introduction video below.
  1. Read Case 28 and then work through Parts 1-3.
  2. Watch the Synthesis Overview before working on Part 4.
  1. Work on Part 4 and then watch the following two videos to make sense of the procedure for multiplying decimals.
  1. Watch the Synthesis video below. 

(Optional) Extended Synthesis:

In this video, Mike and Marta discuss the strategy from the Synthesis Video in greater detail.