Building Arrays in Year 1

This week we have been learning how to represent multiplication using arrays. We have practised using a speaking frame to help us understand how multiplication works.

There are ___ groups.
There are ___ in each group.
There are ___ altogether.

We also learned how to record our array as repeated addition.

There are 4 groups. There are 5 in each group. There are 20 altogether. 

5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20.