^Just thought up a great Times Table game for a group of kids:
  Get cones, pieces of paper, popsicle sticks, whatever - and do
  it like a relay race. Kids stand in a line (go to the back when
  you're done to keep it rotating) and do 1 times 1 - kid runs up
  puts one cone on the other side of the room. All yell: 1 times 1
  equals 1. 1! Next kid puts the next cone down in front of it.
  All yell: 1 times 2 equals 2! 1! 2! Go down up to 12 then
  across. the last bunch of kids would be carrying a lot of
  cones/papers/etc - but it physically would show the benefits of
  multiplication. (makes heavy addition easy by multiplitying
  instead) It would work easily up to 12 x 12 - lots of counting.
  12 would be: 12 times 12 equals 144! Each time repeat the
  previous ones. 12 x 2 is 24. 12 x 3 is 36. 12 x 4 is 48! Yell it
  military style, top of the lungs. BONUS: take a picture as each
  kid adds each the cones/sticks/whatever and video - have a
  helper straighten out the rows/columns. At the end, make a video
  including a stop animation of the multiplication process. Wow,
  took longer to explain it then picturing it. Just flashed in my
  head.^

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