Multiplication Strategies Teaching Resources

Introduce multiplication strategies to your students this school year with the help of worksheets, games and more activities designed to demystify multiplication for young math students!

From using arrays to skip counting, this collection of printable and digital teacher resources has been created with your lesson planning and your students in mind. You'll find resources aligned with both TEKS and Common Core math curriculums, as well as editable options that can be easily differentiated for your students.

New to teaching multiplication or just looking for some handy tips and tricks? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!

What Are Multiplication Strategies?

Multiplication is one of the core math operations that students learn in elementary school, and it's important to outfit them with tools — or strategies — that help them understand and solve multiplication problems more easily.

In essence, that is what multiplication strategies are — methods students can use to find the product of any multiplication problem, based in core mathematical principles.

These aren't tricks that sometimes work but may also end up leaving students frustrated when they come across a problem where the "trick" doesn't work. Multiplication strategies are problem-solving avenues that can be applied to any multiplication problem.