Teaching Arithmetic: Lessons for Extending Multiplication, Grades 4-5

by Marilyn Burns, Maryann Wickett

Focusing on multidigit multiplication, the lessons in this book help students learn to multiply by 10, multiples of 10, and powers of 10. Students become more proficient at estimating and mental multiplication, learn to apply the distributive property to multidigit multiplication, and develop paper-and-pencil strategies for computing.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Marilyn Meinhardt Burns is a mathematics educator and the author of over a dozen children's books on mathematics.