Master 3.6 To Parents and Adults at Home… Your child’s class is starting a mathematics unit on multiplication and division.  Multiplication and division are basic computational skills that children will use often, and skills that children must master to succeed in higher levels of mathematics. The focus of this unit is on developing strategies for multiplying and dividing with whole numbers. Children will identify patterns on multiplication charts, use mental math, and pose and solve problems. In this unit, your child will: ·        Use different mental math strategies to multiply and divide. ·        Multiply by 0, 1, and 10. ·        Divide by 1. ·        Recall multiplication and division facts. ·        Identify and describe patterns in a multiplication chart. ·        Relate multiplication and division. ·        Pose and solve story problems using multiplication and division. ·        Write and solve equations. We use multiplication and division in many day-to-day situations. Encourage your child to practise the multiplication facts from 1 ´ 1 to 9 ´ 9. Talk with your child about the strategies you use to recall these facts. Here is an activity you can do at home: Multiplication Challenge Remove the jokers and face cards from a deck of playing cards. Shuffle the cards. Divide them into two equal piles. Keep 1 pile and give the other pile to your child. Each player turns over two cards and multiplies the numbers on the cards. An ace counts as 1. The player with the greater answer takes the cards. Continue playing until one player runs out of cards.