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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

Folding standup paper counters to aide in setting up multiplication or division word problems. Students can work out given problem or create a problem then write it out on paper in a sentence. Collect the Playing the Dozens Maya Men Paper Counters, also. More paper counters to come.

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

This reward card is an extension of the poem The Mayan Climb by Nine which is about the nine times table. However, it can be used without reference to the poem. There is one front side Reward Card page. There are two optional backside pages. The first has blank steps which the teacher or students can write in math or Mayan facts. On the other page, the steps show the nine times table with repeated addition. Tips on how to use the reward card are included. The page can also be used simply as