Make one pie with ten equal parts. Draw a circle on a piece of posterboard with a compass. Make sure the circle fits well inside the page. Use a protractor to draw a slice that has 36 degrees as its angle at the center. Repeat until you go all around the circle.
On the front of each slice, write a multiplication fact such as "8 x 2" or 8 x 3."
On the back of each slice draw dots with a permanent marker corresponding with the answer to the problem written on the front. For example, the piece with "8 x 2" on the front would have 16 dots on the back. Make as many pies as you need to hold all of the multiplication facts you want to teach.
Put the multiplication pie facing front and a bag of beans in front of the child. Ask the child to read a multiplication fact from one of the slices and give the answer. Have him check the answer on the back.
Ask the child to read the multiplication fact and place the correct number of beans on the table. Have her check the answer on the back.
Turn the pie over to reveal the black dots if the child is unable to answer. Ask the child to put beans over each dot. When he is done matching the beans with the dots, ask him to count the beans. Explain that "8 x 2" is like giving eight beans to two different people and that "8 x 3" is like giving eight beans to three different people.