We love to do maths that involves 'hands on' components. This particular activity allowed us to use our imagination and creativity to create a picture of our choice, out of icy pole sticks. We then estimated how many sticks we thought we used to make our picture. After we counted our icy-pole sticks we worked out the difference by taking-away the smallest number from the biggest number. We used a calculator to check our answers. Once we knew our actual amount, we grouped them into groups of 10. We could then record the multiplication equation and repeated addition for our sticks.
