Lesson 1 – Multiplication as Repeated Addition

Objectives:

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to

• Multiply numbers by adding them.
• Add numbers up to make its multiple.

The sign ‘×’ means multiply or times.

Example:

2 × 2 means two multiplied by two or two times two.

Let’s use addition to do this example.

3 × 2

It is read as “3 times 2 equals 6”