100 Hungry Ants

We had an amazing math session today. We are currently learning strategies for determining the product of whole numbers. We began yesterday with making the connection between repeated addition (3 + 3 + 3 + 3) and multiplication (3 x 4). Today we read the book One Hundred Hungry Ants and used connecting cubes to model the various arrays demonstrated in our mentor text. The children really enjoyed the lesson. I was very impressed with their math thinking today.