For Students to Digest Lesson Content with the Whole Body 
The dramatic activity provides a live or active picturing that aides recall of the students' mental picturing of the symbolic numerical process. 
From the dramatic activity extract numerical statements to be solved by student. Student can now practice independently solving numerical statements but only problems extracted from dramatic activity. In a classroom setting, students can work on solving statements in groups.
 

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teps to Demonstrate Simple Times on the Pythabacus
Step 0: Click To Activate
Step 1: Left Click Check Button
Step 2: Left Click a Gold Bottom Row Bead.
Step 3: Click Left Arrow.
Step 4: Left Click Another Gold Bead to the Right of the First and Click Left Arrow.
Step 5: Left Click Leftmost Gold Bead of Right Group and Click Right Arrow.

The solution to the Simple Times problem is equal the number of beads included in the quadrilateral of brown beads.
This quadrilateral is imagined as the total number of spools required to make all the cloaks.
Continue down page to see what the Princess does when the total number spools is more than nine.