This activity includes a handout for the students and a detailed explanation for the teacher. The activity uses gingerbread men as a tool to teach addition or multiplication. This is a hand’s on activity that consist of three parts. In the first part, the student will express addition and/or multiplication using symbols, tick marks and an equation. The student will determine their height using gingerbread men cut outs as the unit of measurement. The last part tallies the part of the ginge