Join us in this MightyOwl video and learned about the distributive property and area! We will break apart numbers with the distributive property to help you multiply to find the area of huge rectangles. Let's get to work!
Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
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Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.