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Course: 3rd grade > Unit 7
Lesson 3: Associative property of multiplication- Associative property of multiplication
- Properties of multiplication
- Understand associative property of multiplication
- Associative property of multiplication
- Using associative property to simplify multiplication
- Use associative property to multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit
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Using associative property to simplify multiplication
Sal uses the associative property to multiply 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers.
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- Can't we do like that 3*21 = (3*20)+(3*1)=60+3=63
For me it is much more easier to do them
like 83 *4 =(80*4)+(3*4)=320+12=332?(22 votes)- Yes you can do it like that.(8 votes)
- There was so many numbers and number sentences I couldn't understand anything. Why are we doing so much things?(9 votes)
- the more you lern the better(6 votes)
- i dosent know how to do this very well can i has some help?(10 votes)
- Vote me if you want people to stop writing the video transcript(11 votes)
- Does this video make any sense to you?🤷♀️(8 votes)
- Does it matter, if you wrote the answer to be 15 x 3 = (3x3) x 5 = 9 x 5 = 45./ 4:15video time. 4:30(7 votes)
- Good question!
It doesn't. In multiplication, the product will be the same no matter what order you write the numbers:
3x4x5 = 5x3x4 = 4x5x3 = 3x5x4 = 60(5 votes)
- Honestly? It's sort of hard depending on how you're thinking about things. Maybe the entire concept of this flew over my head and I'm doing it the wrong way but whenever I see 14x5 my brain just multiplies 5 by whatever comes to mind that's easiest to remember.
14x5=
5x5 + 5x5 + 5x4
so
25+25+20= 70(5 votes)- I say do whatever way is easier for you
For me, I'm pushing myself to relearn a bunch of old math concepts because I slept way too much in math class in grade school lol
Anyways I think what helped me build splitting up multiplication problems to do them easier was practicing the base concept of multiplication
Where 2 x 3 = 3 + 3
And Distributive Property where 2 x 3 = 2(3+3)
At first is seems pointless to do but when you practice it enough and slowly start doing bigger numbers like 6 x 9 = 6(10-1) = 60 - 6 = 54
It'll make doing math quicker not just on paper but even in your head
I just say keep practicing trying to solve math problems with different techniques and even if you got the answer in another way force yourself to solve it differently so you get the sense of different solutions(7 votes)
- why does the teachers make math so hard(5 votes)
- I am very confused I realy need some help.If you help i will give you an up vote.Thank you.(7 votes)
- what do you need help with?(2 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] In this video,
we're gonna think about how we can use our knowledge of multiplying single digit
numbers to multiply things that might involve two digits. So for example, let's start
with, what is five times 18? And you can pause the video
and see how you might try to approach this, and
then we'll do it together. All right, so if we're trying
to tackle five times 18, one strategy could be to
say, hey, can I re-express 18 as the product of two numbers? And the one that jumps
out at me is that 18 is the same thing as two times nine, and so I could rewrite five times 18. This is the same thing as five times, instead of 18, I
can write two times nine. Now, why does this help us? Well, instead of multiplying
the two times nine first to get the 18, and then
multiplying that by five, what we could do is we
could multiply the five times the two first. And you might be thinking,
wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. Before, you did the two times nine first, and now, you're telling me that you're going to change the order? That you're going to say, hey, let's multiply the five times
two first, is that okay? And the simple answer is, yes, it is okay. If you are multiplying
a string of numbers, you can do them in any
order that you choose, and so this is often known as the associative
property of multiplication. We can associate the
two with the nine first. We can multiply those first, or we can have an association
with the five and the two. We can multiply those two first. Now, why is that helpful? Well, what is five times two? Well, that's pretty straightforward. That's going to be equal to 10. So this is going to be equal to 10. We're doing that same color. 10 times nine. Now, 10 times nine is a
lot more straightforward for most of us than five times 18. 10 times nine is equal to 90. Let's do another example. Let's say we wanna figure
out what three times 21 is. Pause this video and see if
you can work through that. There's multiple ways to do it, but see if you can do it the way we just approached this first example. Well, as you could image,
we want to re-express 21 as the product of smaller numbers. So we could rewrite 21 as
three times seven maybe? And so if we rewrite it
as three times seven, and now, we do the
three times three first. So I'm just gonna put parenthesis
there, which we can do because the associative
property of multiplication. Fancy word for something that is hopefully a little bit intuitive. Well then, this is going to be equal to, what's three times three? It is nine, and then times seven,
which you may already know is equal to 63. Let's do another example. This is kinda fun. Let's say we wanna figure
out what 14 times five is. Pause this video and see
if you can figure that out. Well, we could once
again try to break up 14 into the product of smaller numbers. 14 is two times seven, so we can rewrite this as two times seven or as seven times two, and I'm writing it as seven times two, because I want to associate
the two with the five to get the 10 times five, and then I can multiply
the two times five first. And so this is going to
give us seven times 10, seven times 10, which is
of course equal to 70. One more example. Let's say we want to
calculate 15 times three. How would you tackle that? Well, we can break up 15
into five times three. Five times three, and then we can multiply that,
of course, by this three, and then we can multiply
the threes together first, and then this amounts to five times nine. And five times nine, you might already be familiar with this. This is going to be equal to 45. Another way to get to
45, you can say, hey, five times 10 is 50. So five times 9 is going
to be five less than that, which is also 45.