Are you curious how the new Start Math Right: The Journey to Mathematics Excellence book addresses multiplication? Listen to Allison Fitzgibbon share her discoveries from the new book. Allison admits that the multiplication chapter was packed with more information than she had time to cover! She chose to focus on patterns found in math.
Multiplication is repeated addition … except when it’s not. It doesn’t work for fractions or negative numbers.
Presenting multiplication as only repeated addition will set students up for future challenges and misunderstandings.
