I find blocks useful for working out multiplication and division problems as you can make even height towers or even length rows.
Here we are calculating how many caps were for sale in the classic story book 'Caps for Sale' by remaking his hat and figuring out that there are 4 groups of 4 or 4x4 plus one more. There are lots of other math ideas that could be drawn from this book including the one to one correspondence of monkey to hat, or how much would all the hats cost at 0.50 cents each etc...
My daughter very seriously balances her 'cap tower' on her own head - for some reason this image won't rotate for me.
Oh and since someone in our local homeschooling circle suggested that my blog made my kids look like they spent all day cooperatively doing complex games and problems, here is what they did directly afterward and it is something they excel at - making a mess and having fun in the process.
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