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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to the students. Encourage them to recall what they know about multiplication to write the number sentence.
Headline Story
Write a number sentence to match this picture.
Possible student responses
- (3 × 8) + (4 × 8) = 7 × 8
- (2 × 7) + (6 × 7) = 14 + 42
- (2 × 3) + (2 × 4) + (3 × 6) + (4 × 6) = 56
- (6 × 4) + (6 × 3) + (2 × 7) = 24 + 18 + 14.