Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Multiplying by a multiple of 10
Multiply a one-digit factor by a multiple of ten
Problem types
- Multiply by a multiple of ten
Builds on
Leads to
- Multiplying with partial products
- Powers of 10 and place value · Extend the idea
Multiplying by 10, 100 or 1000 shifts each digit left by that many places, which is the multiplication by powers of ten.
- Working in scientific notation · See it applied
Scientific notation multiplies a number by a power of ten, so its value is found with the same place shifts.
Related skills
- Add two-digit numbers · Shared foundations
- Patterns in the operations · Shared foundations
- Compare two-digit numbers · Shared foundations
- Quotients from related facts · Shared foundations
- Generating equivalent fractions · Shared foundations
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