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2nd grade · Math · Unit 9 of 19

Groups & Sharing

Equal groups and equal shares

What your child practices

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

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 2.6(A); 2.6(B) · joining equal groups to multiply and separating a set into equal groups to divide

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  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

Groups & Sharing in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 9 of 19 in 2nd grade Math, after Balance It and before Arrays.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    There are 5 groups of 2 🍪. How many in all?

    • 10
    • 8
    • 7

  2. Question 2

    There are 20 stickers. Each page holds 4. How many pages?

    📒
    • 7
    • 8
    • 5

  3. Question 3

    3 + 3 = ?

    • 6
    • 3
    • 7

  4. Question 4

    There are 12 stickers. Each page holds 3. How many pages?

    📒
    • 4
    • 5
    • 1

  5. Question 5

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

    • 2
    • 6
    • 3

  6. Question 6

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

    • 15
    • 22
    • 16

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