I pull one small group every day. I have them grouped by ability and I usually pull my lower group to the back table first every week. We do this at the beginning of every lesson while the other kiddos are working on dailies and early finisher activities. I usually spend 20 minutes of my lesson with the small group while the others are doing math stations/early finishers.
We began multiplication this week, so I took some cupcake liners and combined them with the mini-marshmallows and instantly I had kiddos ready to make equal groups of 2. This turned out to be a perfect small group activity and took less than 20 minutes!
I demonstrated the first couple to get the kiddos started. We put one marshmallow in each of the cupcake liners. Then, they drew a dot to represent the marshmallow inside the circle for the model on their recording sheet. They reasoned that the total marshmallows were 2 -- which is the product of 2 x 1. We completed a few more together and then they took off! They eagerly completed the activity with ease. The kiddos loved using the marshmallows and even some of my struggling students were able to pick up on the pattern of counting by 2's.
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Marshmallow Multiplication
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