6 ways to collect multiplication pictures
1. Collect pictures of times table facts for a poster
2. Put pictures in Robinsunne’s multiplication clock
3. Collect from the same context, theme, or story
Animal legs for x2? What multiplication can you find in Star Wars, Harry Potter, or Minecraft?
4. Find examples of as many models as you can
Larger pictures of models are here.
5. Collect iconic examples
Iconic multiplication is easy to recognize, such as 8×8 for chessboard or 2×5 for fingers on hands. The backgammon board always stands for 4×6 and can’t have another combination of circles.
6. Make factorization diagram posters
Sources: Count on Monsters and Math Less Traveled.
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12 models of multiplication
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Adaptations for toddlers and young kids
See the full recording of the presentation “Baby algebra, toddler calculus” (August 2013) or just the slides.
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Becoming Invisible by Bob Kaplan, in Playing with Math
How do you help students be heroes of their own math adventures? How to avoid taking over? Become invisible! That’s what Bob Kaplan of the Harvard Math Circle says. From Playing with Math edited by Sue VanHattum.
Download or print PDF of Becoming Invisible from Playing with Math
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