Teaching Multiplication Using LEGO® Bricks

In Teaching Multiplication Using LEGO® Bricks, Dr. Shirley Disseler has developed activities that work to help students learn the basics of multiplication, using a common toy available in most classrooms and homes-LEGO® bricks!

Multiplication is not simply the rote memorization of times tables. Students need to understand multiplication concepts. LEGO®
bricks are the perfect manipulative to help students model, utilizing their creative and logical processes together.

In this book, the hands-on activities using LEGO® bricks help students learn:
• the meaning of multiplication as repeated addition

• the vocabulary of multiplication

• basic multiplication facts

• one-digit multiplication

• two-digit and larger multiplication

The book starts at the most basic concepts and focuses on a specific topic in each chapter. Most students learn these concepts between grades 2 - 5.

Using LEGO® bricks to model math provides a universal language. Children everywhere recognize this manipulative.

It's fun to learn when you're using LEGO® bricks!