| For Students to Ingest Lesson
Content with the Senses Symbolically introduce numerical process to student in such a way as to encourage mental picturing of the symbolic presentation, but do not require student to independently reproduce symbolic numerical process. Over this period of introduction, tell student story or give description of life process to be used for whole body activity dramatizing numerical process. |
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*Introduce the numerical symbolic statement, written in columnar format. *Initially work with the whole numbers 0 to 5 thereby covering the products 0 to 25. *Imagine the bottom number equals the number of spools required by the Princess to make one cloak (The Multiplicand) and the top number equals the total number of cloaks to be made (The Multiplier). The product is the total number of spools required to make all the cloaks. *Mental math statements are given as what equals bottom numeral times top numeral. *For example, count with the students by the bottom numeral counting as many times as equal the top numeral to reach the product. (Click center of times symbol to display answers). |