{"id":57182,"date":"2017-05-03T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid"},"modified":"2017-05-03T15:22:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:22:27","slug":"the-true-scale-multiplication-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid","title":{"rendered":"The True Scale Multiplication Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came up with a neat idea for a multiplication grid visual the other day, and stuck it up on Twitter where it has been doing the rounds with unprecedented alacrity:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_chalkface\/status\/857596054317015041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" data-attachment-id=\"320\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/29\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid\/tweet\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/tweet.png\" data-orig-size=\"566,856\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{\u201caperture\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d credit\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d camera\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d caption\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d created_timestamp\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d copyright\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d focal_length\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d iso\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d shutter_speed\u201d:\u201d0\u201d,\u201d title\u201d:\u201d\u201c,\u201d orientation\u201d:\u201d0\u201d}\" data-image-title=\"tweet\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/tweet.png?w=566\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid2.jpg\" alt=\"tweet\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid2.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/tweet.png?w=396&h=600 396w, https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/tweet.png?w=99&h=150 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px)  100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve loved reading comments and seeing how people are using the grids already, with fellow teachers, students and your own kids (I\u2019m making one on A1 squared paper for my son this weekend \u2013 here\u2019s one 3-year-old who will know what multiplication means before he learns his tables, if I can manage it!) A few of you came up with ideas for variations I could do, including starting the grid from the bottom-left to mimic a Cartesian coordinate grid, and emphasizing square numbers. I\u2019ve also done one with the prime factorization of numbers on one side of the diagonal, which I quite like. I\u2019ve put all the images together into a single pdf document to make it easier to access. It\u2019s on my website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechalkface.net\/resources\/true_scale_multiplication_grid.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.thechalkface.net\/resources\/true_scale_multiplication_grid.pdf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/29\/the-true-scale-multiplication-grid\/\">https:\/\/thechalkfaceblog.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/29\/the-true-s...tion-grid\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came up with a neat idea for a multiplication grid visual the other day, and stuck it up on Twitter where it has been doing the rounds with unprecedented alacrity: I\u2019ve loved reading comments and seeing how people are using the grids already, with fellow teachers, students and your own kids (I\u2019m making one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}