Contexts for Learning Mathematics: The Big Dinner: Multiplication with the Ratio Table (Gr. 3-5)

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In The Big Dinner, the context of preparing a turkey dinner highlights students' early multiplication strategies, and supports automatizing the facts, using the ratio table, and developing the distributive property with large numbers. Strings of related problems guide learners toward computational fluency with whole-number multiplication and build automaticity with multiplication facts by focusing on relationships.