Modeling Multiplication and Division as Equal Groups Hands on Activity

 Would you like to help your students practice the multiplication and division  skills of equal groups and repeated addition or repeated subtraction in a hands on way?  Try this interactive math activity using hula hoops! Using hula hoops as equal group models, students will place themselves inside the hoops to model multiplication  and division equations. 

A visual PowerPoint slideshow or PDF file has 26 multiplication or division problems for students to act out. Your class will have so much fun with Multiplication Hoopla or  Division Hoopla!

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Winter Math Craft for Multiplication and Division Fact Families

Help your students master related multiplication and division facts with a winter holiday fact family math craft. Students will create a Fact Family snowman to show the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. These turn out so adorable on a bulletin board titled “Math is Snow Much Fun”.

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Bug Division

Spring is time for bug hunting!

My class completed these bug division math mats.

First we did a nature walk outside to observe spring time bugs.

Then back in class we went to work.

I ran different kinds of bugs on construction paper for students to choose:

butterflies, grasshoppers, ladybugs, ants 

Last they created division equations for their bug jars.

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