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If you want to give 2 treats to each dog/cat –then how many treats will they need to give?Ĭhildren 9-10 years are now at the stage of learning their times tables and understanding a number sentence can be used to represent multiplication.

Feeding Pets – if you have more than one animal this is perfect.

Cut out pictures from magazines and stick in arrays. Collect leads from the garden, thread bead necklaces.

Beads or Painting – Use craft as a way to motivate kids to skip count and see patterns.

Using counters or sultanas inside the egg containers you can come up with different multiplication sums.

Egg containers – Using egg containers which you have saved practise the concept of arrays – equal rows.

If they count by one remind them to count by the number in each row – usually counting by 2. Ask them to count the ice cubes you are making.

Ice cubes tray – when refilling the ice cube tray use this opportunity for your child to practise their knowledge of skip counting and arrays.

Your child will also be making the connection that 3 groups of 2 gives the same answer as 2 groups of 3 but that it looks different. They learn that equal rows are called arrays.

The winner is the first to eat their necklace.Ĭhildren aged 7-8 years are counting by ones, twos, fives and tens in rhythmic patterns. Take turns to roll a dice and ‘eat’ away that number of Cheerios from the necklace. Cereal necklaces – have children thread Cheerios or fruit loops onto a piece of string in a pattern 2 green, 3 blue, 2 green.

Here is 1 cupcake of 4, that’s 1 group here is the second group of 4 etc.” When making cupcakes decorate with smarties or lollies and ask them to give each cupcake four smarties “we have 5 cupcakes and they each have the same number of lollies.

Decorating Cupcakes – children at this age often like to help bake.

Try these activities to reinforce the concepts:

This ability to ‘see’ the groups is important. They are using the language ‘group’ to describe a collection of items. If your child is aged 5-6 years then are focusing on modelling equal groups or rows of items. In fact the strong foundations for multiplication are taught from kindergarten or Prep. Multiplication is taught from the first year of school which can surprise parents as many think of multiplication as a concept taught in primary school. Your child’s ability to visualise the process that is occurring when they multiply two numbers together is important before times tables are learnt. However the teaching of multiplication in schools now has changed from the drilling of times tables. Many of us can recall memorising our times tables as children. Colouring In Pages & Printable Activities.