At the car park there are 12 cars in each row. How many cars would there be in five rows? |
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Student: Five times twelve is the same as ten times six. That's sixty. |
Students at the Advanced Multiplicative stage are learning to choose appropriately from a range of part-whole strategies to solve and estimate the answers to problems involving multiplication and division. These strategies require one or more of the numbers involved in a multiplication or division to be partitioned, manipulated, then recombined. |