Using arrays as a strategy

After playing a game of multiplication, BOPDs created a pictograph to see what strategy is most commonly used in the classroom to solve multiplication problems. Based on our pictograph, many of us use known facts. The least used strategy was arrays so as a class, we reviewed arrays and how we can use it to model our solutions. BOPDs were given multiplication problems and then analyzed how the factors affected the shape of the array. They wrote they noticed on stickies and shared it with each other.