Grade 3 · Operations and Algebraic Thinking

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.1

Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each.

Read this standard on the official Common Core site

Lessons that teach this standard

• What Is Multiplication? Equal Groups and Arrays

  What a product means, how equal groups and arrays show it, why the order of the factors does not matter, and how the properties make the times tables shorter to learn.