Help your students compare and connect two important multiplication strategies: equal groups and repeated addition. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for Candy Multiplication.

In this lesson, students will have fun creating addition sentences by drawing and counting ladybug dots.

Students will work together as well as individually to add up coins to a desired amount. This real life skill will be made fun when students get to physically count out their cents!

Help your students create a basis for future math classes with this lesson that teaches children about math expressions and how they can interpret them.