Learning objects The array: go figure

TLF ID L108

This tutorial is suitable for use with a screen reader. It explains strategies for solving simple multiplications in your head such as 6x4. Work through sample questions and instructions explaining how to break up numbers into their factors. Solve multiplications by using arrays to break them up into rows and columns, then solve the main equation. This learning object is one in a series of two learning objects.





Educational details

Educational value
  • Provides definitions of ‘row’, ‘column’ and ‘array’.
  • Provides real world example of an array to illustrate multiplication principle.
  • Can be used with a screen reader.
Year level

1; 2

Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
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  • Organization: Maths Technologies Ltd
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  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
  • Visual independence
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2013, except where indicated under Acknowledgements.