Grouping and

8 Sharing

2 + 2+ 2+ 2 = 8
3+3=6
4 + 4 + ____

What are you I am counting the wheels of

looking at? autorickshaws and bicycles
by adding the number of their
wheels. But I missed the cars
as they had started moving.

Ok! I will show you a way of

finding the total number of How did you do it
wheels. There were 7 cars Ramya? Can you
and each car had 4 wheels, please explain?
so the total number of wheels
is 7 times 4, means 28.

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 Let us Do

There are 4 bicycles .

Let us see
Each bicycle has 2 wheels.
Total wheels = 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8
We are adding 2 for 4 times.
So, 4 times 2 is also 8 or 4 groups of 2 give 8.
You know, times can be written as ‘×’.
4×2=8
Number of autorickshaws
Wow! This is
=2
easy. Let me
do this for Each auto has 3 wheels.
autorickshaws Total wheels = 3 + 3 = 6
now. 2 times 3 is 6 or 2
groups of 3 is 6.
Let us do it for cars. 2×3=6

Number of cars =

Number of wheels in each car =

Total wheels = + + + + + + =

times 4 is
How many fours are
you adding? ____
7 groups of is
We can write it as
7 fours are 28.
× =

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 Let us Do

Number of butterflies =
Number of wings in each butterfly =
Total number of wings = + + =
or 3 groups of is
times 2 is 6
3 twos are
× =
Number of octopuses =

Number of legs in each octopus =

Total number of legs = + =

2 groups of is

2 times is 16

2 eights are

× =
Number of lines =

Number of soldiers in each line =

Total number of soldiers = + + + =

times is 40

4 tens are

× =
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 Complete the Table

3+3+3+3 4 times 3 4 × 3 = 12
Stars

5+5+5 ______________ ____________

Fingers

______________ 6 times 3 ______________

Bananas

4 × 4 = 16
______________ ______________ Oranges

2 × 5 = 10
______________ ______________ Pencils

3 × 5 = 15
______________ ______________
Balls

Match the Following

9+9+9 7 fives are 27

5+5+5+5+5+5+5 4 groups of 10 35
3+3+3+3+3 3×9 40
10 + 10 + 10 + 10 3×8 14
8+8+8 2 sevens are 15
7+7 5 times 3 24

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 Complete the Table of 2
2 ones are 2 2×1=2

2 twos are 4 2×2=4

2 threes are 6 2×3=6

Complete the Table of 3

3 ones are 3 3×1=3

3 twos are 6 3×2=6

3 threes are 9 3×3=9

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 Complete the Table of 5
5 ones are 5 5×1=5

5 twos are 10 5 × 2 = 10

5 threes are 15 5 × 3 = 15

Complete the Table of 10

10 ones are 10 10 × 1 = 10

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 How Many?

There are 4 bouquets. There are 3 bouquets.

4 groups of 3 flowers 3 groups of 4 flowers
4×3 3×4
Ram used 12 flowers in all. Gopal used 12 flowers in all.

Did you observe something? Discuss.

Test your observation with other examples.

4 groups of 5 5 groups of 4
___ times 5 is ____ ___ times 4 is ____
4 × 5 =_____ 5 × 4 = ______
There are ____ gulab jamuns. There are ____ gulab jamuns.

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 6 groups of 4 4 groups of 6
___ times 4 is ____ __ times 6 is ____
6 × 4 = ______ 4 × 6 =_____
There are ______ flowers. There are ____ flowers.

A. There are 8 packets of bindis. Each packet has 5 bindis.

Number of packets =

Number of bindis in each packet =

groups of bindis.

× = bindis
B. Bharti puts 4 buttons on each shirt. She wants to put
buttons on 7 shirts.
Number of shirts =

Number of buttons on each shirt =

groups of buttons

× = buttons
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 C. Rita bought 6 pencils of `4 each. How much money will
she give to the shopkeeper?
Number of pencils =
Cost of 1 pencil =
Cost of 6 pencils = 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 4
× =
So, Rita will give ` to the shopkeeper.

D. Five people can sit in a car. How many people can sit in
8 such cars?
Number of people sitting in 1 car =
Number of people sitting in 8 cars =
× =
people can sit in 8 cars.
Making Multiplication Table
Rudra is making multiplication table of 4 using the table of 2.
2 4 6 810 12 14 16 18 20 (Table of 2)
+ 2 4 6 810 12 14 16 18 20
4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 (Table of 4)

This is interesting. Let

us now make the table
of 6 from the table of 3.

3 6 12 21 30 (Table of 3)
+ 3 9 18 24 (Table of 3)
6 (Table of 6)
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 Let us make the table
of 7 from the tables
of 3 and 4.

3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 (Table of 3)
+ 4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 (Table of 4)
7 14 21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 (Table of 7)

Make the table of 8 from the table of 2 and 6.

2 4 10 14 18 20 (Table of 2)
+ 6 36 48 (Table of 6)
8 (Table of 8)

Project Work
Collect 24 small objects like buttons, bottle caps, pebbles, etc. Arrange
them in different arrays and write the related multiplication facts. How
many of these facts can you find? Record your answers in the table given
below.

Number of groups Multiplication facts

3 groups of 4 3×4

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 Let us Share
Please, no!
I also want to eat.
Let us share
Wow! them equally.
I wish I
gulab
could eat
jamuns But how?
them all.

I will share 1 by 1.
Take 1 more.
See, 1 for you,
Now, 2 for you
1 for me.
2 for me.

4 for you, 4 for Yes bhaiya! I

3 for you, me. Now, they are cannot wait to eat
3 for me. divided equally. 4 gulab jamuns.

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 A. How many gulab jamuns were there in total?
B. Have they shared equally? Yes/No
C. How many gulab jamuns did each of them get?

Let us Do
A. Complete Ritu’s art and craft project by drawing 12
bindis equally on 2 ice cream cones as cherries.

B. Pooja has 2 plates. Each plate has a different number

of laddoos in it. Help her divide the laddoos equally in
3 plates. You can draw and colour the laddoos.

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 How Many Groups? Hi, I am Garima. I have
20 star shaped beads
and I will use 5 beads
to make each bracelet.

Look, 1 bracelet
is ready. Isn’t it
beautiful?

I have made 2 bracelets.

Now, 10 beads are left.
Let us see how many
more can we make.

Yayy! 3 bracelets
are ready.

I have used all

the beads finally.

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 Let us Make

A. Each string has 7 beads.

How many strings can we make with 21 beads?

B. There are 54 flowers. Join 9 flowers to make 1 bracelet.

How many bracelets can we make with 54 flowers?

C. There are 25 roses. 5 roses can be placed in 1 vase. How

many vases are needed for placing 25 roses?

vases are needed.

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 D. There are 27 candles. Put them equally in 3 boxes. How
many candles will be in each box?

There will be candles in each box.

E. A tailor puts 6 buttons on one shirt. Here are 30 buttons.

The tailor will be able to put 30 buttons on shirts.

F. Share 24 bananas equally among 3 monkeys.

Each monkey will get bananas.

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