Thinking Strategies For Multiplication

Cathcart, G., Pothier, Y., & Vance, J. Learning Mathematics in Elementary and Middle Schools, 3^rd ed. Scarborough, Ontario (1994).

The part of this book, which is called Thinking Strategies for Multiplication, is intended to introduce the teacher to some different ways their students may generalize the multiplication facts. Splitting the product into known parts, facts of five, and patterns are the three strategies identified here in this text.