Question

Explain why it works to break apart a number by place values to multiply

Answer 1

Well first of all if I had a multiplication question such as 12,000×1000 of course you would know it would be 12,000 well you would always use your place value chart saying ones tens hundreds thousands and thousands and hundreds

Answer 2

If you had a problem like 80x20 you wouldn't know what that was but you can take out the 0's and do 8x2 which is 16 then add back both 0's to make 1,600