How I Introduced the Game
We played the game with numbers 3-5 together as a class and the students completed the pages in the booklet found in the link below that were applicable to these numbers. After, each student was given a a small cup with ten beans in each. They worked through the booklet; focusing on how to make each number in a variety of ways (4) by “spilling the beans”. They printed the sentence on the sheet provided. They were only allowed to print that sentence once. We worked through this booklet over a period of several days.