"Basics of Multiplication: Learning Foundational Multiplication Skills With Repeated Addition" is a math worksheet that is designed to help students get acquainted with multiplication by allowing them to practice skills that they're already familiar with, like skip counting and repeated addition. Students add groups of the same number with visual aids and skip counting activities along the way. Each set of numbers is accompanied by the equivalent multiplication problem, enabling students to learn the multiplication symbol and experience firsthand how multiplication is the same as repeated addition.

Instead of introducing multiplication as a separate concept, students grasp the premise of multiplication easier when they're able to experience it through repeated addition, which is a concept they already understand. For example, you can start with a problem like 7 x 4, breaking it down as its equivalent addition problem of 7 + 7 + 7 + 7.

This concept can be further illustrated by allowing students to practice their skip-counting skills. Students can skip count by 2s while you demonstrate that each skip count is like completing a multiplication problem. Students can skip count by 2s to 10 and discover that they skip counted 5 times (2, 4, 6, 8, 10). Then, you can demonstrate that it's the same as the multiplication problem 2 x 5, allowing students to make connections between repeated addition, skip counting, and multiplication.