Do you think about rectangles when multiplying? If not, I highly recommend it, and here's why!

Love this strategy, but I have to ask, where did you find the shirt?!?! I love it as well!

Thanks! It was our math department shirt a couple years ago so I didn't buy it. :(

This is a great visualisation and exactly how multiplication issshown on the BBC’s Numberblocks TV programme which many chn in the UK watch. Can you explain the mixed fractions rectangle please?

Yay. This is a grade 3 Common Core strategy. Now use that same area model to visualize division. The number in the “box” is the area. And the divisor is one of the side lengths and the quotient is the other.

Ahhh the good ol’ area model. A favorite in elementary school! 😊 Love the shirt!

The area model

Thanks @howie_hua I remember when I was first shown this approach (as an adult…) which helped me expand the process of “why” within multiplication a bit better than “number of apples on trees in an orchard” I usually used as a metaphor

I like it and I like your shirt! 🙌