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LEGGY ANIMALS
Question 1:
- How many spiders? ____
- One spider has ____ legs.
- In all, spider legs are 3 times ____
- Or, ____ + ____ + ____ = ____
- Or 3 x ____ = ____
Answer:
- How many spiders? 3
- One spider has 8 legs.
- In all, spider legs are 3 times 8
- Or, 8 + 8 + 8 = 24
- Or 3 x 8 = 24
Question 2:
So how many legs altogether do 5 octopuses have?
Answer:
8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 40 legs
Or, 5 times 8 = 40 legs
Or, 5 x 8 = 40 legs
FIND THE NUMBER WITHOUT COUNTING
Question:
In the same way, how many bottles are these?
Answer:
4 times 5 = 4 x 5 = 20 bottles.
Question:
How many eggs?
Answer:
6 times 5 = 6 x 5 = 30 eggs.
PRACTICE TIME
Question A:
- 4 × 18 is 4 times ___ or ___ + ___ + ___ + ___
- 3 × 20 is ___ times ___ or ___ + ___ + ___
- 8 × 9 is ___ times ___ or ___ + ___ + ___ + ___ + ___ + ___ + ___ + ___ + ___
Answer:
- 4 × 18 is 4 times 18 or 18 + 18 + 18 + 18
- 3 × 20 is 3 times 20 or 20 + 20 + 20
- 8 × 9 is 8 times 9 or 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9 + 9
Question B:
Tell how many times!
Answer:
- 8 + 8 + 8 = 3 × 8 = 24
- 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 5 × 3 = 15
- 30 + 30 + 30 = 3 × 30 = 90
- 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 + 7 = 7 × 6= 42
- 12 + 12 + 12 + 12 = 4 × 12 = 48
- 6 + 6 + 6 = 6 × 3 = 18
- 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 4 × 10 = 40
- 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 2 × 5 = 10
- 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 7 × 6 = 42
Question C:
Ramu bought 4 packets of biscuits. Each packet has 4 biscuits. How many biscuits did Ramu buy?
Answer:
Ramu bought 4 x 4 = 16 biscuits.
Question D:
There are 12 desks in a classroom. Each desk has 4 legs. What is the total number of legs of the desks?
Answer:
Total number of legs of the desks = 12 x 4 = 48 legs.
Question E:
Sabiha brought home 3 bunches of flowers. Each bunch has 4 flowers. How many flowers were there?
Answer:
Total number of flowers = 3 x 4 = 12 flowers.
Question F:
One rail coach has 8 wheels. How many wheels in all in 6 coaches?
Answer:
Total number of wheels in 6 coaches = 8 x 6 = 48 wheels.
HOW MANY TIMES 2?
Question:
Fill in the blanks
Answer:
JUMP WITH ME
Question:
Tarru Frog jumps 3 steps each time. Which numbers will Tarru touch?
Answer:
STICK PLAY
Question:
Try making a 2 times table with sticks
Answer:
- 1 × 2 = 2
- 2 × 2 = 4
- 3 × 2 = 6
- 4 × 2 = 8
- 5 × 2 = 10
- 6 × 2 = 12
- 7 × 2 = 14
- 8 × 2 = 16
- 9 × 2 = 18
- 10 × 2 = 20
Question:
Now draw sticks to make the multiplication table of 6.
Answer:
- 1 × 6 = 6
- 2 × 6 = 12
- 3 × 6 = 18
- 4 × 6 = 24
- 5 × 6 = 30
- 6 × 6 = 36
- 7 × 6 = 42
- 8 × 6 = 48
- 9 × 6 = 54
- 10 × 6 = 60
SHOPPING WITH TABLES
Question:
How much do these things cost?
- 4 toffees cost ____ rupees.
- 3 pencil boxes cost ____ rupees.
- 10 pencil boxes cost ____ rupees.
- 9 balloons cost ____ rupees.
- 5 toys cost ____ rupees.
- 7 face masks cost ____ rupees.
Answer:
- 4 x 2 = 8 rupees
- 3 x 10 = 30 rupees
- 10 x 10 = 100 rupees
- 9 x 5 = 45 rupees
- 5 x 4 = 20 rupees
- 7 x 3 = 21 rupees
PRACTICE TIME
Question A:
Complete the following:
Answer:
- 2 × 7 = 14
- 3 × 9 = 27
- 4 × 9 = 36
- 5 × 2 = 10
- 5 × 8 = 40
- 3 × 10 = 30
- 10 × 6 = 60
- 2 × 8 = 16
- 5 × 9 = 45
- 10 × 8 = 80
Question B:
Look at the patterns and complete them.
Answer:
- 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18.
- 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12.
- 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60.
- 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24.
- 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
- 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180
Question C:
Complete the multiplication tree
Answer:
Question D:
How many in all?
- A shirt has 5 buttons. How many buttons would 3 shirts have?
- There are four fans. Each fan has 3 blades. What is the total number of blades in all?
- A box contains 6 apples. How many apples in all will seven boxes have?
- How many corners would 4 triangles have?
Answer:
- 5 x 3 = 15 buttons
- 4 x 3 = 12 blades
- 6 x 7 = 42 apples
- 4 x 3 = 12 corners
Question E:
Some multiplication facts
Answer:
PRACTICE TIME
Question A:
Multiply
Answer:
- 22 × 3 = 66
- 43 × 2 = 86
- 21 × 4 = 84
- 24 × 2 = 48
- 11 × 5 = 55
- 30 × 5 = 150
- 20 × 4 = 80
- 23 × 9 = 207
- 26 × 4 = 104
- 38 × 2 = 76
- 25 × 3 = 75
- 24 × 5 = 120
- 35 × 3 = 105
- 48 × 4 = 192
- 32 × 5 = 160
- 58 × 2 = 116
Question B:
First guess the answer and then calculate:
- A flower has five petals. A bunch of flowers has 13 flowers. How many petals are there in the bunch?
- A book has 64 pages. What will be the total number of pages in 8 such books?
- Students stand in rows in the assembly. There are six rows of students. Each row has 17 students. How many students are there?
- A design has 3 flowers in it. A piece of cloth has 17 such designs. How many flowers will be on the cloth?
Answer:
- Total number of petals = 5 x 13 = 65 petals.
- Total number of pages = 64 x 8 = 512 pages.
- Total number of students = 6 x 17 = 102 students.
- Total number of flowers on the cloth = 3 x 17 = 51 flowers.
PRACTICE TIME
Question 1:
First guess the answer and then check it by calculating:
Answer:
- 42 × 23 = 966
- 73 × 11 = 803
- 51 × 13 = 663
- 54 × 12 = 648
- 25 × 36 = 900
- 12 × 14 = 168
MULTIPLICATION PATTERNS
Question A:
Did you see the pattern in the 9 times table? What numbers are adding up to 9?
Answer:
Yes, the pattern in the 9 times table is that the sum of the digits in the product is always 9.
Question B:
Complete the grid by multiplying the numbers
Answer:
Question c:
Look for other such crosses and copy them in your Notebook
Answer:
- 6 + 12 + 18 = 36 = 10 + 12 + 14
- 9 + 18 + 27 = 54 = 16 + 18 + 20
- 8 + 10 + 12 = 30 = 5 + 10 + 15