Headline Story
Multiplication Situations, #4
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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to the students. Encourage them to create problems that can be solved using information from the story.
Headline Story
Juan arranged 12 toy cars into a rectangle. What can you say about Juan’s toy cars?
Possible student responses
- It is impossible for one of the rows in the rectangle to have 5 cars.
- The rectangle could have one row that is 12 cars long.
- Juan could have arranged the cars in the 3 different ways shown:
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