Learning multiplication and division through LEGO

Our pupils in year two getting to know the multiplication and divsion. At the first lessons we used a lot of examples and exercises with LEGO. So they understood the new kind of operation with numbers very quickly.

Multiplication:

We counted the bricks and the number of pimples of one brick - and multiplicated. So we knew the number of all pimples.

Addition and mulitplication 

Division:

To understand the splitting with the division we splitted some numbers of Lego Bricks. The children should imagine to shaie their 20 bricks with 1 friend, 3 friends ... Afterwards we build the division task.