What this lesson shows
3 × 8 = 4 × 6 is true. 24 ÷ 4 = 12 ÷ 3 is false. Both sides same value.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: 3 × 8 = 4 × 6. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Equal means the same as
- Work out each side
- Same value: true
Helping at home
Read the equal sign as "is the same as". Work out the left side and write its value under it, then the right side. If the two values match, it is true; if not, false.
If your kid gets stuck
Work out each side under it.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
More in this unit
- Equal groups and arrays
- Groups or how many in each?
- Two kinds of division
- Equal jumps on a number line
- Turn the array
- Facts from facts you know
- Add the parts
- One digit times two digits
- Multiply both parts
- Three factors, any order
- Times tens and hundreds
- Counting zeros fails
- One array, four facts
- The answer can go first
- The unknown anywhere
- Even or odd?
- The ones digit decides
- Is it a multiple?
- A number is its own multiple
- Patterns from a rule
- Position is not value
- Two-step word problems
- Finish the second step
- One pattern, two ways