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Multiply by 2

Grade 3 · Multiplication and Division Fluency · question 1 of 3

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two times 1 = . What is the product?

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Times 2 means two equal groups.

That is the same as doubling.

Read it: Skip count by fives

You have three trays. Five apples sit on each. Don't count all fifteen — look at the skip: five, ten, fifteen.

  1. See three trays with five apples on each.
  2. Skip count by fives: five, ten, fifteen.
  3. Say three times five is fifteen.

Counting every apple from one works, but fifteen apples take a long time, and you can lose a tray.

Each tray holds the same five apples, so after the first tray you already know the next jump is five more.

Three jumps of five land on fifteen, which is three trays of five without touching every apple.

When trays hold matching amounts, skip count the trays, not every apple.

Adding three and five and saying eight apples in all.

Three trays of five is not three plus five — skip five, ten, fifteen.

2 × 3 = ___ — 6. 2 trays with 3 apples in each: skip-count the trays — 3, 6.

2 × 6

We have two equal groups of six. How many is that altogether?

Multiplying by two means doubling — adding a number to itself.

Here are our two groups. Each one has six.

Let's write that as multiplication: two times six.

Doubling six means adding six plus six.

Six plus six is twelve, so two times six equals twelve.

2 groups of 6 — how many in all?×2 means double it!Group 1Group 2662 × 6 =6 + 6126 + 6 = 12ANSWER12in all
Grade 3 · Worked example: 2 × 6

Two times six equals twelve. Every twos fact is just doubling!

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics
Did you know?

A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.

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1 star — one skill mastered, every rung of its ladder climbed
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Divide within 100

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics

Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.

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