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Letter array A set of objects in rows and

columns
equal groups Groups that have the
same number of objects
Dear Family,
factor A number that is multiplied
During the next few weeks, our math class will be by another number to find a
product
learning about multiplication. We will learn how
multiply When you multiply, you
addition is related to multiplication and how to combine equal groups to find how
multiply with the factors 0 and 1. many in all.

You can expect to see homework that provides product The answer in a
multiplication problem
practice with multiplication.
Here is a sample of how your child will be shown the
relationship between addition and multiplication.

Relate Addition and Multiplication

This is how we will add or multiply to solve problems about

Tips
equal groups.
Skip Counting
Add. Multiply.
Skip counting is another
STEP 1 STEP 1 way to count equal groups
Draw 2 counters in each Draw 2 counters in each to find how many in all.
rectangle to show 4 equal rectangle to show 4 equal For example, there are
groups. groups. 4 groups with 2 counters
in each group, so skip
counting by 2s can be
used: 2, 4, 6, 8. There are
STEP 2 STEP 2 8 counters in all.
Write an addition sentence Write a multiplication
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to find how many counters sentence to find how many

in all. counters in all.
2+2+2+2=8 4×2=8

Activity
Help your child arrange 3 equal groups of like objects (no
more than 10 objects in each group). Then have him or her
write an addition sentence and a multiplication sentence to
find how many objects in all.

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Capítulo

Carta arreglo Un grupo de objetos

para la casa organizados en filas y columnas

grupos iguales Grupos que tienen

la misma cantidad de objetos
Querída Familia, factor Un número que se multiplica
por otro número para hallar el
Durante las próximas semanas, en la clase de producto
matemáticas aprenderemos sobre la multiplicación. multiplicar Cuando uno multiplica,
Aprenderemos cómo la suma se relaciona con la combina grupos iguales para hallar
cuántos hay en total.
multiplicación y a multiplicar por los factores 0 y 1.
producto El resultado de una
Llevaré a la casa tareas que sirven para practicar la multiplicación
multiplicación.
Este es un ejemplo de la manera como aprenderemos
la relación entre la suma y la multiplicación.

Relacionar la suma y multiplicación

Así es como vamos a sumar o multiplicar para resolver

problemas de grupos iguales. Pistas
Suma. Multiplica. Contar salteado
Contar salteado es otra
PASO 1 PASO 1 manera de contar grupos
Dibuja 2 fichas en cada Dibuja 2 fichas en cada iguales para hallar cuánto
rectángulo para mostrar rectángulo para mostrar hay en total. Por ejemplo,
hay 4 grupos con 2 fichas
4 grupos iguales. 4 grupos iguales.
cada uno, por lo tanto
puedes contar salteado de
2 en 2: 2, 4, 6, 8. Hay 8 fichas
PASO 2 PASO 2 en total.

Escribe un enunciado de suma Escribe un enunciado de

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en total. cuántas fichas hay en total.
2+2+2+2=8 4×2=8

Actividad
Ayude a su hijo a formar 3 grupos iguales de objetos parecidos
(no más de 10 objetos en cada grupo). Después, pídale que
escriba un enunciado de suma y uno de multiplicación para
hallar cuántos objetos hay en total.

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Lesson 3.1
Count Equal Groups COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.1
Represent and solve problems involving
multiplication and division.
Draw equal groups. Skip count to find how many.

1. 2 groups of 2 4 2. 3 groups of 6

3. 5 groups of 3 4. 4 groups of 5

Count equal groups to find how many.

5. 6.

groups of groups of

in all in all
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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
7. Marcia puts 2 slices of cheese on 8. Tomas works in a cafeteria kitchen.
each sandwich. She makes 4 cheese He puts 3 cherry tomatoes on each
sandwiches. How many slices of of 5 salads. How many tomatoes does
cheese does Marcia use in all? he use?

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1. Jen makes 3 bracelets. Each bracelet 2. Ian has 5 cards to mail. Each card
has 3 beads. How many beads does needs 2 stamps. How many stamps
Jen use? does Ian need?

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.NBT.2)

3. There were 384 people at a play 4. Walking the Dog Pet Store has
on Friday night. There were 438 leashes in stock. They sell
512 people at the play on Saturday 79 leashes during a one-day sale.
night. Estimate the total number of How many leashes are left in stock
people who attended the play on after the sale?
both nights.

5. The Lakeside Tour bus traveled 6. During one week at Jackson School,
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225 miles on Sunday. About how students buy juice. How many
many more miles did it travel on drinks are sold that week?
Saturday?

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Lesson 3.2
Relate Addition and Multiplication
COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.1
Represent and solve problems involving
multiplication and division.
Draw a quick picture to show the equal groups. Then
write related addition and multiplication sentences.
1. 3 groups of 5

5 + ___
___ 5 + ___
5 = ____
15
___ 5 = ____
3 × ___ 15
2. 3 groups of 4

___ + ___ + ___ = ___

___ × ___ = ___

3. 4 groups of 3

___ + ___ + ___ + ___ = ___

___ × ___ = ___

4. 5 groups of 2

___ + ___ + ___ +___ +___ = ___

___ × ___ = ___

Complete. Write a multiplication sentence.

5. 7 + 7 + 7 = ___ 6. 3 + 3 + 3 = ___

___ × ___ = ___ ___ × ___ = ___

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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving

7. There are 6 jars of pickles in a box. 8. Each day, Jani rides her bike 5 miles.
Ed has 3 boxes of pickles. How many How many miles does Jani ride in
jars of pickles does he have? Write 4 days? Write a multiplication
a multiplication sentence to find sentence to find the answer.
the answer.

___ × ___ = ___ jars ___ × ___ = ___ miles

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Lesson Check (3.OA.1) PREP
1. What is another way to show 2. Use the model. How many
counters are there?
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3?

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.NBT.2, 3.MD.4)

3. A school gave 884 pencils to students 4. Find the difference.
on the first day of school. What is 632
884 rounded to the nearest hundred? − 274

5. The line plot below shows how many 6. Darrien read 97 pages last week. Evan
points Trevor scored in 20 games. read 84 pages last week. How many
pages did the boys read?

 
    
     
     

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Points Scored

In how many games did Trevor score

18 or fewer points?

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Lesson 3.3
Skip Count on a Number Line COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.3
Represent and solve problems involving
multiplication and division.
Draw jumps on the number line to show equal
groups. Find the product.

1. 6 groups of 3

' ( ) * + , - . / 0 (' (( () (* (+ (, (- (. (/ (0 )' )( )) )* )+ ),

6×3= 18
2. 3 groups of 5

' ( ) * + , - . / 0 (' (( () (* (+ (, (- (. (/ (0 )' )( )) )* )+ ),

3×5=

Write the multiplication sentence the number line shows.

3. 2 groups of 6

' ( ) * + , - . / 0 (' (( () (* (+ (, (- (. (/ (0 )' )( )) )* )+ ),

× =
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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
4. Allie is baking muffins for students 5. A snack package has 4 cheese sticks.
in her class. There are 6 muffins in How many cheese sticks are in
each baking tray. She bakes 5 trays 4 packages?
of muffins. How many muffins
is she baking?

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Lesson Check (3.OA.3) PREP
1. Louise skip counts by 4 on a number 2. Theo needs 4 boards that are each
line to find 5 × 4. How many jumps 3 feet long to make bookshelves.
should she draw on the number line? How many feet of boards does he
need altogether?

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.MD.3)

3. Estimate the sum. 4. Which number would you put in a
518 frequency table to show |||| ||| ?

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5. A manager at a shoe store received an 6. Toby is making a picture graph.

order for 346 pairs of shoes. What is Each picture of a book is equal to
346 rounded to the nearest hundred? 2 books he has read. The row for Month
1 has 3 pictures of books. How many
books did Toby read during Month 1?
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Lesson 3.4
Problem Solving • Model Multiplication COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.8
Draw a diagram to solve each problem. Solve problems involving the four operations,
and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

1. Robert put some toy blocks into 3 rows.

There are 5 blocks in each row. How many
blocks are there?
15 blocks
_____

2. Mr. Fernandez is putting tiles on his

kitchen floor. There are 2 rows with
9 tiles in each row. How many tiles are
there?
_____

3. In Jillian’s garden, there are 3 rows of carrots,

2 rows of string beans, and 1 row of peas.
There are 8 plants in each row. How many
plants are there in the garden?
_____

4. In Sorhab’s classroom, there are 3 rows

with 7 desks in each row. How many desks
are there in the classroom?
_____

5. Maya visits the movie rental store. On one

wall, there are 6 DVDs on each of 5 shelves.
On another wall, there are 4 DVDs on each of
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4 shelves. How many DVDs are there on the shelves?

_____

6. The media center at Josh’s school has a

computer area. The first 4 rows have
6 computers each. The fifth row has 4 computers.
How many computers are there?
_____

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Lesson Check (3.OA.8) PREP
1. There are 5 shelves of video games 2. Ken watches a marching band. He
in a video store. There are 6 video sees 2 rows of flute players. Six people
games on each shelf. How many are in each row. He sees 8 trombone
video games are there on the shelves? players. How many flute players and
trombone players does Ken see?

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.NBT.2, 3.MD.3)

3. What is the sum of 438 and 382? 4. Estimate the sum.
622
+ 84

5. Francine uses 167 silver balloons and 6. Yoshi is making a picture graph. Each
182 gold balloons for her store party. picture of a soccer ball stands for two
How many silver and gold balloons goals he scored for his team. The row
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Lesson 3.5
Model with Arrays COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.3
Represent and solve problems involving
multiplication and division.

Write a multiplication sentence for the array.

1. 2.

21
3×7=_ 2×5=_

Draw an array to find the product.

3. 4 × 2 = _ 4. 4 × 4 = _

5. 3 × 2 = _ 6. 2 × 8 = _
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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
7. Lenny is moving tables in the school 8. Ms. DiMeo directs the school choir.
cafeteria. He places all the tables in a She has the singers stand in 3 rows.
7 × 4 array. How many tables are in There are 8 singers in each row. How
the cafeteria? many singers are there?

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Lesson Check (3.OA.3)

1. What multiplication sentence does 2. What multiplication sentence does

this array show? this array show?

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.NBT.2, 3.MD.3)

3. Use the table to find who traveled 4. Use the bar graph to find what hair
700 miles farther than Paul during color most students have.
summer vacation.
Hair Color
Summer Vacations Brown
Name Distance in Miles
Paul 233 Black
Color

Andrew 380 Blond

Bonnie 790
Red
Tara 933
Susan 853 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Number of Students

5. Spencer orders 235 cans of 6. Which bar would be the longest on a

tomatoes to make salsa for the bar graph of the data?
festival. What is 235 rounded to
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Favorite Pizza Topping

the nearest ten? Topping Votes
Cheese 5
Pepperoni 4
Vegetable 1
Sausage 3

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Lesson 3.6
Commutative Property of Multiplication
COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.5
Understand properties of multiplication and
the relationship between multiplication and
division.
Write a multiplication sentence for the model. Then
use the Commutative Property of Multiplication to
write a related multiplication sentence.
1. 2.

5 × 2 = 10 × =
2 × 5 = 10 × =

3. 4.

× = × =

× = × =
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Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
5. A garden store sells trays of plants. 6. Jeff collects toy cars. They are
Each tray holds 2 rows of 8 plants. displayed in a case that has 4 rows.
How many plants are in one tray? There are 6 cars in each row. How
many cars does Jeff have?

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1. Write a sentence that shows 2. What factor makes the number

the Commutative Property of sentence true?
Multiplication.
7×4=■×7

Spiral Review (3.NBT.1, 3.NBT.2, 3.MD.3)

3. Ms. Williams drove 149 miles on 4. Inez has 699 pennies and 198 nickels.
Thursday and 159 miles on Friday. Estimate how many more pennies
About how many miles did she drive than nickels she has.
altogether?

5. This year, the parade had 127 floats. 6. Jeremy made a tally table to record
That was 34 fewer floats than how his friends voted for their
last year. How many floats were in favorite pet. His table shows
|||| |||| || next to Dog. How many
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the parade last year?

friends voted for dog?

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Lesson 3.7
Multiply with 1 and 0
COMMON CORE STANDARD—3.OA.5
Understand properties of multiplication and
the relationship between multiplication and
division.

Find the product.

1. 1 × 4 5 _ 4 2. 0 × 8 5 _ 3. 0 × 4 5 _ 4. 1 × 6 5 _

5. 3 × 0 5 _ 6. 0 × 9 5 _ 7. 8 × 1 5 _ 8. 1 × 2 5 _

9. 0 × 6 5 _ 10. 4 × 0 5 _ 11. 7 × 1 5 _ 12. 1 × 5 5 _

13. 3 × 1 5 _ 14. 0 × 7 5 _ 15. 1 × 9 5 _ 16. 5 × 0 5 _

17. 10 × 1 5 _ 18. 2 × 0 5 _ 19. 5 × 1 5 _ 20. 1 × 0 5 _

21. 0 × 0 5 _ 22. 1 × 3 5 _ 23. 9 × 0 5 _ 24. 1 × 1 5 _

Problem
Problem Solving
Solving
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25. Peter is in the school play. His teacher 26. There are 4 egg cartons on the table.
gave 1 copy of the play to each of There are 0 eggs in each carton. How
6 students. How many copies of the many eggs are there in all?
play did the teacher hand out?

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1. There are 0 bicycles in each bicycle 2. What is the product?

rack. If there are 8 bicycle racks, how
many bicycles are there in the rack? 1 × 0 = ___

Spiral Review (3.NBT.2, 3.OA.3, 3.MD.3)

3. Mr. Ellis drove 197 miles on Monday 4. What multiplication sentence does
and 168 miles on Tuesday. How the array show?
many miles did he drive?

Use the bar graph for 5–6.

5. How many cars were washed on
Friday and Saturday combined? Cars Washed

60
50
Number of Cars

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40
30
20
6. How many more cars were washed 10
on Saturday than on Sunday? 0
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da da d
Fri atu
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Sun
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