#37 For All Ages

For All Ages

Grown-ups: It’s pretty hard to find examples for numbers greater than five. You may find the hunt for intrinsic multiplication strangely addictive. Enjoy the challenge!

Babies: Put up pictures on walls, or create your own book with dots or stickers highlighting what you count in each illustration. Photograph the baby holding objects representing iconic quantities.

Toddlers and Young Kids: If the examples toddlers find aren’t quite iconic, accept them anyway. The point is to find multiplication, not to argue whether the quantities are always the same. Pay special attention to twos and fives. A toddler can use fingers to match a group of five. This happy familiarity helps with our decimal (two fives!) system.

Big Kids: Once examples are collected, children can create an artistic multiplication poster in a consistent style. Invite kids to try timed or competitive scavenger hunts, with challenges to photograph as many iconic multiplication examples at a museum or a park as they can.