Mathematics

CURRICULUM FOCUS

This week in Mathematics, Grade 2 students are learning to use partitioning to solve multiplication and division problems.

VOCABULARY

Partitioning in multiplication:

split two-digit numbers into tens and ones before multiplying. 

ACTIVITIES YOU CAN DO AT HOME TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD'S LEARNING

A teacher asks some children to arrange some chairs into 12 rows of eight chairs. How many chairs will be laid out?

With your child, together use the strategy of partitioning to solve this problem within their homework book.