
What You'll Find on This Page
Materials Needed
Download and Print page 2 of the Acorn Sheet when you sign up for our Hands-on Activities News Letter or you could use real acorns if you have these available. ScissorsLearning Objectives
- Solve problems involving multiplication using materials, arrays, repeated addition
- Show that multiplication of two numbers can be done in any order (commutative)
Help children to represent this multiplication two numbers in any order using our DIY Maths Fact Family Triangles to support understand this further.
Preparation
Download and print the acorn sheet (page 2) Cut up the acorns – 100 are provided for your use on page 2
Building Number Facts with Acorn Arrays
We are working on 2, 5, 10, 3, 4 and 8 times tables with my eldest – although in Year 2 he only needs to know 2, 5 and 10 he has mastered these as has memorised them and can apply to different situations without understanding the number facts behind them. Using the acorns, we’re able to build up the number fact knowledge for the 3 and 4 times tables.




More Acorn, Squirrel, Nut themed activities for 2nd-grade learning
Check out these other ideas for 2nd-grade learning from the team. Acorn Arrays for Building Number Facts You are Here! Acorn Addition with Hundreds Chart from Life Over C’s Squirrels Copywork from Sallie Borrink Learning Acorn Gratitude Banner from Creative Family FunHow to Teach Vocabulary Words to a Hands-On Learner from Sugar Aunts

Author
Cerys Parker
Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, teacher, mum, and home educator from the UK. She loves getting creative, whether it is with simple and easy crafts and ideas, activities to make learning fun, or delicious recipes that you and your kids can cook together you'll find them all shared here on Rainy Day Mum.