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This is an extension of poem Maya Climb by Nine published in the book Egg-cellent Math Poems and also delivered in power point. Students can cut and fold Maya men paper counters for use when working multiplication or division problems. Continuing to integrate math, language arts and social studies, word problems are included with a breakdown of the 5Ws to help in understanding the problem. This packet includes reward stickers for younger students, a glossary, individual counters, and place mar

Three free downloadable Papa, Mama, Baby pictures for children to use when acting out poem by same name. The poem covers fact families in math. Use after reading the poem from Egg-cellent Math Poems or viewing power point found on TpT by Consuello Battin. Print out the three pictures on card stock or regular paper. Laminate so that different numbers can be written and erased for each addition, subtraction, multiplication or division word problem being taught. Teachers can place the Papa, Ma