Cathy J. Kinzer, Ted Stanford, The Distributive Property: The Core of Multiplication, Teaching Children Mathematics, Vol. 20, No. 5 (December 2013/January 2014), pp ...

When this reporter, ahem, asked for a friendly reminder (wink-wink) about the math concept, Sykora explained the distributive property of multiplication. “For example, if you have 12 times 3 ...

Cans on a grocery store shelf and Hirst's Capric Acid Amide can illustrate dot arrays, thus helping students understand the distributive property, partial products, and the standard algorithm for ...