3rd Grade Expressions for Arrays Worksheet: Write Each Product

The example on the page reads the array by columns. There are 3 columns, and each column holds 5 cups, so the expression is 3 × 5. In the same way, the 5 columns of 4 hearts in item 2 give 5 × 4 = 20.

In item 5, the answer key writes 5 × 8 for 5 rows of 8 squares. Your child may write 8 × 5 instead, and that is right too. Both orders give 40, which is the commutative property.

Item 4 has 60 dots, so counting them one by one is slow and easy to get wrong. Instead, count the dots in one row first, and you find 10. Next, count the rows, and you find 6. So the expression is 10 × 6, and counting by tens gives 60.

For item 3, the balls form a square of 6 rows and 6 columns, so 6 × 6 = 36.

First, check each expression with the answer key on page two. Next, look for arrays around the house, such as an egg box with 2 rows of 6. Then ask your child to say the expression out loud before the product: 2 × 6 = 12. Finally, let your child lay out 24 buttons in equal rows and name the expression that matches.