GRAPHIC MULTIPLICATION {Multi-Digit Multiplication Graphic Organizers}

GRAPHIC MULTIPLICATION is designed for your students who are beginning multi-digit multiplication and those who are struggling with the process. This partial product method will help them "SEE" it.

GRAPHIC MULTIPLICATION is organized as a partial product, two-step approach, to the traditional multiplication method. Your students will multiply FIRST, add SECOND.

There are THREE stages of graphic organizers in GRAPHIC MULTIPLICATION. The aim of this approach is to gradually reduce your students’ dependence on visual cues to complete multi-digit multiplication. Download the PREVIEW to view these stages. And check it out in action here.

Once your students have mastered STAGE ONE—the graphic organizers that identify the place value of each number and number’s location for each step—they should complete problems on the STAGE TWO graphic organizers that only have the initial prompts. This second set of sheets will test your students’ understanding of multiplication problems’ organization. Finally, STAGE THREE sheets have no prompts—just a reminder to be cautious about number placement.

These graphic organizers can be used with a variety of multi-digit multiplication problems. Here is a breakdown of the types of graphic organizers per stage:

STAGE ONE: Place Value & Geometric Cues
One-by-Three Digits
Two-by-Two Digits
Two-by-Three Digits

STAGE TWO: Initial Prompt Geometric Cues
One-by-Three Digits
Two-by-Two Digits
Two-by-Three Digits
Three-by-Four Digits

STAGE THREE: Reminder to Yield
One-by-Three Digits
Two-by-Two Digits
Two-by-Three Digits
Three-by-Three Digits
Two-by-Four Digits
Three-by-Four Digits