Greedy birds math

Teacher sets up 2 games of greedy bird math for a class of 20 – 25 (same as rob the nest).
Evenly spread 5 hoops around a center hoop.
Place 2 sets of numbered bean bags into the center circle. (bean bags are numbered 1 – 20.
Group students in pairs.

Students stand behind a hoop in group of 2.
On the whistle, one student from each nest will run to the centre circle and collect one bean bag at a time, returning each one back to the nest without dropping or throwing it.
Once all bean bags have been retrieved from the centre, players are then allowed to take bean bags from other nests.
Blow the whistle at a time when all nests have at least 2 bean bags each.
Once the whistle has been blown, students must freeze and then arrange their bean bags to create a multiplication number sentence. Note: bean bags can be grouped to make 2- or 3-digit numbers.
Students solve the multiplication number sentence using an efficient strategy.
Once solved, bean bags return to the middle and play resumes on the whistle

How was your and your partners thinking the same and different?
What was the most efficient strategy?
What can you do differently next time to be more efficient?
How did you decide what numbers to collect to make the smallest product? Largest product? Target product? Odd product? Even product?

Multiplicative relations