Teaching with Monkeys One of my favourite ways to teach combinations of five begins with the story, Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed. After reading the story, initially exploring rhymes, patterns, and chants, I like to use it as a tool for teaching math facts to five. As I go through the story again (generally over the span of a few days), I take a moment after each verse to introduce a math fact or draw a composition of the monkeys in relation to the bed (i.e., 5 monkeys on the bed and 0