About Lesson
Learning Goals:
- Develop and justify a method to use the area model to determine the product of a monomial and a binomial or the product of two binomials.
- Factor an expression, including expressions containing a variable.
- Recognize that area represents the product of two numbers and is additive.
- Represent a multiplication problem as the area of a rectangle, proportionally or using a generic area.
- Develop and justify a strategy to determine the product of two multi-digit numbers by representing the product as an area or the sum of areas.