Unit 1, Lesson 17
Match and Draw Arrays
Grade 3
Preparation
Lesson Purpose
The purpose of this lesson is for students to relate arrays to drawings of equal groups and to describe arrays in terms of multiplication.
Lesson Narrative
Students first match arrays to drawings of equal groups. Then they redraw drawings of equal groups as arrays. The work of this lesson connects to upcoming lessons when students represent arrays with expressions and equations.
Make connecting cubes or counters available to students who need them. Keep collecting ideas that arise about commutativity.
- Engagement
- MLR8
- Draw arrays to represent equal groups and describe (orally and in writing) the relationship between the arrays and multiplication.
- Match (orally) arrays and drawings that represent the same equal groups.
- Let’s match arrays to equal groups and draw arrays.
Required Materials
Activity 2
Required Preparation
Activity 1
- Create a set of cards from the blackline master for each group of 2 or 4 students.
Lesson Timeline
Warm-up
Activity 1
Activity 2
Lesson Synthesis
Cool-down
Teacher Reflection Questions
What question do you wish you had asked today? When and why should you have asked it?
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