Establishing a strong understanding of the area model also prepares students for more advanced topics all the way into college! In this episode, Pam and Kim describe how useful the area model is as a foundation for further understanding throughout a student's learning career.
Talking Points:

• Using the area model builds intuition of the distributive property
• Using and understanding the area model for fraction multiplication
• Paradigm shift for teachers to think about what students know about whole numbers and apply it to fractions
• The area model as a tool, not something that is sketched for every problem
• Area model inspired graphic organizer for polynomial multiplication, polynomial division, and conics                       

See Episodes 146 and 147 for more discussion of the Area Model
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