The Big Dinner: Multiplication with the Ratio Table (Contexts for Learning Mathematics, Grades 3-5: Investigating Multipication and Division)

In The Big Dinner the preparation of a turkey dinner introduces early multiplication strategies and supports automatizing the facts, using the ratio table, and developing the distributive property with large numbers. Strings of problems guide learners toward computational fluency with whole-number multiplication and build automaticity with multiplication facts by focusing on relationships.