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Is There a Simpler Way?

Remember Arrays?

Finding The Area of a rectangle is just like counting dots or squares in an array.

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Can You Find the Area Without Having the Squares Drawn?

So You Have Been Multiplying and You Didn't Even Know It!!!!

How Do We Find The Area of a Rectangle?

What Would the Area of This Rectangle Be?

In other words you can multiply 3x3 and get and area of 9 sq units

What About This One?

I have 3 rows and 3 columns

This is the same thing as saying 3 groups of 3