Alex

[Alex]

Hint:  It is necessary to use the make tile tool:

[Alex]

Mrs. Gabledon these are awesome!  I love seeing the diversity of kids’ minds on display!

[Alex]

MarieAZ, we have a ton more math facts activities.  Just a note, if you sign up for the beta of Tile Farm Classroom, you will get free access to all of these activities and a ton more for free for the near future.  You can sign up here:

https://classroom.tilefarm.com/signup/landing

For your specific question, here is a visual and intuitive activity I really like for 3rd graders getting their feet wet in multiplication facts.

https://classroom.tilefarm.com/activityPreview/3/warmups/4

[Alex]

Glad you like it!  If you look in Big Thinkers in Tile Farm Homeroom for middle school, we have a whole suite of puzzles focused on developing a deeper understanding of order of operations through visualziation.

[Alex]

Here is an image showing the four steps of solving one of these problems, along with the annotation for number of tiles and how that relates to order of operations:

[Alex]

All of these look awesome!  If anybody is looking for a tutorial on how to make tessellations in Tile Farm Studio, you can watch this YouTube video:

More tutorial videos like this can also be found in the lessons section of Studio.

 

[Alex]

After students master this activity, they might be inspired to create their own fonts or word art in Tile Farm Studio.  Here is an example of a more complex creation:  

[Alex]

Here’s an “octaghost” I made this morning:

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If people are interested in learning how this pattern was made, and how it relates to subtraction of fractions, check out this YouTube video:

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