MA, Stanford University
Teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area
Alissa is currently a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and Brightstorm users love her clear, concise explanations of tough concepts
The area of a rectangle can be found by length times width, so we can represent a multiplication problem as a rectangle. The two factors become the two side lengths, and the area is the product. We can use this idea to create a rectangular model made with two adjacent rectangles to illustrate the distributive property.
Transcript Coming Soon!