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Grade 2 · Math · Unit 9 of 18

Groups & Sharing

Equal groups and equal shares

What your child practises

Seeing multiplication as repeated equal groups and division as sharing equally, with arrays, pictures and short stories.

Nunavut Curriculum approved guide: Nunavut Mathematics K–6 (2025), 2.N.2.3 · dividing sets to 20 into equal groups

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practise.

  1. Equal groups: add the same number again and again.
  2. Sharing: put the same number in each group.
  3. Count how many in all, or how many each.

Example: There are 3 groups of 4. How many in all? 4 + 4 + 4 8 + 4 = 12. Answer: 12

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    8 groups, and each group is one fourth of a pizza. How many whole pizzas is that?

    🍕
    • 1
    • 4
    • 2

  2. Question 2

    2 + 2 = ?

    • 4
    • 3
    • 0

  3. Question 3

    There are 4 groups of 2 📚. How many in all?

    • 5
    • 18
    • 8

  4. Question 4

    10 ⭐ are shared equally by 5 friends. How many does each get?

    • 3
    • 2
    • 0

  5. Question 5

    12 ⚽ are shared equally by 4 friends. How many does each get?

    • 3
    • 9
    • 7

  6. Question 6

    How many are there? Think of 3 rows of 4.

    • 12
    • 8
    • 17

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