🔢 Mathematics · Measurement
Area and the distributive property
Use tiling to demonstrate the distributive property: the area of a rectangle with sides a and (b+c) equals a×b + a×c; use area models to represent the distributive property
Typical age: 8–9 years
“If your child wants to work out 6 × 13 by splitting it into 6 × 10 and 6 × 3, can they draw a rectangle divided into two parts to show why that method works?”
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