Texas Math Models

Try “number line” or “4.5D”

Standard algorithm

24 × 6 = 144 G3–G4

carried digit sits small, centered above its own column 2-digit × 1-digit2-digit × 2-digit 2 24 6 × 144 2 24 15 × 120 240 + 24 × 524 × 10 360

How this one works

How

stack by place value, multiply, and carry when a column goes past 9.

Best when

you want the quickest way.

seen one of these on a test? See it on a real question: TEKS 3.4K, one- and two-step problems, or TEKS 3.5B, writing the equation first.

The same problem, other ways