Students in our class shared with their classmates ideas of arrays they found at home. Some items they brought — (or drew a picture of) were egg cartoons, cans of soup, package of drink boxes, rows of cookies, graph paper, ice cube tray, stacks of videos, towers of legos, blocks, cookies on a cookie tray, tic-tac-toe board, muffin tins, a checker board, rows of beads on an abacus, other items they brought in that they made into arrays were candies, beads, checkers, marshmallows, noodles, beans, toy cars and trains.

We worked out together the multiplication equation for each idea brought in.