Understanding Stick Multiplication

The video tutorial explains stick multiplication, also known as Mayan or Japanese multiplication, and its relationship with partial products. It demonstrates how to model numbers using colored sticks, where green represents ten and blue represents one. The tutorial shows how to calculate the product of 14 and 37 by using intersections of sticks, which represent different partial products. The process is compared to traditional multiplication using distribution. The video concludes by highlighting the visual benefits of stick multiplication in understanding multiplication and partial products.

What is another name for stick multiplication?

• Greek multiplication

• Roman multiplication

• Mayan multiplication

• Egyptian multiplication

In stick multiplication, what does a green stick represent?

• Five

• One

• Ten

• Twenty

How many green sticks are used to model the number thirty-seven?

• One

• Two

• Three

• Four

What does the intersection of two green sticks represent?

• One

• Ten

• Fifty

• One hundred

How many intersection points of a green and a blue stick are there in the example?

• Nine

• Seven

• Five

• Eleven

What is the total number of intersection points of two blue sticks?

• Twenty

• Twenty-five

• Thirty

• Twenty-eight

What is the sum of the partial products in the example?

• Five hundred eighteen

• Four hundred fifty

• Four hundred

• Six hundred

Which mathematical property is demonstrated by stick multiplication?

• Identity property

• Commutative property

• Distributive property

• Associative property

What is the result of distributing ten in the example?

• Five hundred

• Two hundred

• Three hundred

• Four hundred

What is the final product of fourteen times thirty-seven using stick multiplication?

• Six hundred

• Five hundred

• Four hundred

• Five hundred eighteen