My math students are hard at work in these pictures.  They were making a tool out of paper plates to help them with their multiplication facts.  One plate is cut around the outside about 2 inches deep.  You will get about 14 sections per paper plate.  Then, two plates are glued together, one with the cut edges and one with out the edges cut.  Then, the students choose with multiplication fact they are struggling with and write that number in the center of the plate.  The students write their multiplication facts regarding that number around the end of the plate and write the product (answer) on the plate beneath the cut plate.  Last, the plate is decorated.

After that, the students did a little cup stacking with multiplication facts. Their facts were written on plastic cups.  The products were written inside for self-correction.  The goal was to continue stacking cups as long as your answers were correct.  You were supposed to say 3 X 7 = 21, 4 X 8 = 32, and so on.  For some the temptation to just stack the cups existed…it’s a work in progress…