Watch these videos about the distributive law and how children figure out multiplication facts (the 1-digit x 1-digit problems)

• Arrays in multiplication, and the commutative and distributive laws.
• Explaining the commutative and distributive laws
• Strategies for multiplication facts

Here's (mostly) the same information written down

Here's the assignment

Some more details about strategies children use for figuring out multiplication facts are here (optional):

• Skip counting and patterns for 0, 1, 5, 9, 10.
• More about the 9's pattern
• Doubling and counting up and down
• Using the distributive law