Featuring the picture book Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu by Dayle Ann Dodds
Unlock the power of "building" multiplication facts with this PF on the Go kit focused on Doubling. In the rhyming world of Minnie’s Diner, each brother who enters the diner is twice as big and twice as hungry as the one before. This playful story provides a perfect visual for how numbers can grow rapidly through doubling, helping children see that they can use the "twos" they already know to solve harder "fours" and "eights" facts.
The math comes to life on a personal Diner Tray, where children use food-shaped erasers to physically model the doubling process. Families can play Double Run Rummy, a card game that encourages players to look for patterns and relationships between sets of numbers. By engaging in the "Talk About It" prompts, children learn to explain how a known fact (3 X 7 = 21) can be doubled to solve a new problem (6 X 7 = 42). These activities work together to help your child develop a flexible toolkit of strategies, making multiplication feel more like a puzzle to solve than a list of facts to memorize.
Included Materials:
- Minnie's Diner: A Multiplying Menu by Dayle Ann Dodds
- Double Run Rummy
- Food erasers (36)
- Diner Tray activity sheet
- Silver plastic fork
- Four full-color activity cards printed on durable card stock, with clear, step-by-step instructions for every activity
Start with Kit A and progress in order to Kit J. Kits A–E are prerequisites for Kits F–J. Students should master the facts in the prerequisite kits before starting the later kits.