Improve your pattern-recognition and estimation skills as you practice multiplication and division. Children use techniques like breaking down numbers and fast addition to arrive at the correct answer — and to understand the concepts behind the process!
Multiplying any number by 10, 100, or 1,000 will be easy for your third grader once they learn the trick! This worksheet will give them the knowledge they need to master this type of multiplication.
Multiplying by 3 is easier than multiplying by other numbers because of a certain pattern. When you multiply any number by 3, the digits of the answer must add up to a multiple of 3.
With this worksheet, multiplying by nine got a lot easier for your third graders! Teach them the trick and they will be on the way to mastering their multiples of nine.
With this worksheet, your third graders will learn a nifty trick about multiplying numbers by six. Any even number you multiply by six will be in the answer! For example, 6 x 2 = 12.
This worksheet reviews the multiplication patterns for the numbers two, three, and five, and the division pattern for the number two. Once you students familiarize themselves with these patterns, these math problems will become a breeze!
With this worksheet, your students will learn a helpful trick about dividing by two and three. Dividing a number by two, is the same as one-half that number. Dividing by three is the same as one-third!
Why make things harder on ourselves? Teach your students to decompose numbers to make math easier! Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for Decompose to Multiply: 6, 7, 8, and 9.