Visualizing Multiplication

of Decimals Using Pictorial

Models
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 Drill

E-Flash
Cards
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Review
Give the value of the following illustration

1 3 1 3
4 4 2 4
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Give the value of the following illustration

1 4 6 _4_
4 4 10 10
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Give the value of the following illustration

60 _40_ 6 _4_
100 100 10 100
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Give the value of the following illustration

2_ 80 _20_ _40_
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Give the value of the following illustration

70_ 30 _30_ _3_

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Give the value of the following illustration

6_ _9_ 9_ _3_
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Motivation Baby Isabel plays with blocks. Each block
measures 3.5 inches tall. She has a collection
of 7 blocks. If she could stack all the blocks up
one on top of the other. How many inches tall
would her tower be.

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Motivation How many Blocks does
Baby Isabel plays with Baby Isabel have?
blocks. Each block How tall each block?
measures 3.5 inches
__________ What is being asked in the
tall. She has a problem?
collection of 7________
blocks. The height of Isabel's
If she could stack all tower
the blocks up one on
What operation are we going
top of the other. How
____ to used to solve the problem?
many inches tall
_______________
would her tower be.
__________________

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Motivation
Baby Isabel plays with
blocks. Each block 3.5
measures 3.5 inches
tall. She has a X7 3.5
collection of 7 blocks.
If she could stack all
24.
35 3.5
3.5
the blocks up one on 3.5
top of the other. How 3.5
many inches tall 3.5
would her tower be. 3.5

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Presentation
Mr. Dizon’s farm is 0.3 km long and 0.1 km
wide. How big is his land?

0.3 0.1

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Mr. Dizon’s farm is 0.3 km long and 0.1 km
wide. How big is his land?
0.3
x____
0.1

3_ or 0.03
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 Use horizontal and vertical lines to visualized
Group
Activity the solution.
Group 1:
A rectangular table is 0.8 m long and 0.5 m wide. Find its
area.
Group 2:
Two students multiplied 0.2 by 0.4. Student 1 found a product of 0.8 and
Student 2 found a product of 0.08. Which student had the correct answer?

Group 3:

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 Group How to visualized multiplication of decimals?
Activity

Multiplying decimals can be visualized

by representing each factor with the
horizontal and vertical lines placed
over the other.
The double shaded part represents the
answer to the equation.
Generalization

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 Write the correct multiplication equation for each
Evaluation of the following numbers represented by the
shaded region.

1. x =

2. x =
Evaluation

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