4-4a multiplication fact fluency

Another way to think about this (because some people recall the product of squares quickly) is decomposing 7 into 6 and 1 and then finding (6 x 6) + (1 x 6). But some people like to work with doubles, so another way is to recall that 3 x 7 is 21 so we can decompose 6 into … ................
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