Introduction to Multiplication

The question asked that cookies be arranged on 8 trays. Each tray should contain 12 cookies. 

This was one representation of these cookies. This young man used a ten frame and 2 ones to represent one tray of cookie. He had 8 sets of this. Take a look at his representation

He also represented his answer numerically. He is demonstrating multiplication as repeated addition. 12*8 is the same as 12+12+12+12+12+12+12+12 and the product or the sum is 96.  He also made excellent use of his knowledge of place value.

This activity gave me a bit of difficulty in finding a standard to match. I thought of using the following standard because each batch of cookie could be viewed as a fraction of the whole which was not known immediately.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NF.B.3.D
Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions referring to the same whole and having like denominators, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.

I opted to play it safe and use this standard instead even though it still did not provide all I was looking for simply because it was more obvious than the alternative

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.6
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

How would you do this word problem? Comment down below to let me know.

SherD