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Multiplication Baskets Math Journal

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Multiplication Baskets Math Journal

Multiplication Baskets Math Journal

Baskets with apples illustration

🧮 Part 1: The Problem

Read this problem carefully:

If you have 3 baskets and each basket holds 4 apples, how many apples do you have altogether?

1. How many baskets are there?
2. How many apples are in each basket?

🎨 Part 2: Draw Your Answer

3. Draw a picture to show the baskets and apples. Make sure to draw all 3 baskets with 4 apples in each one!

🔢 Part 3: Find the Answer

4. Count all the apples. How many apples are there altogether?
5. Write the multiplication sum:

_____ × _____ = _____

6. Which way did you count the apples? Tick one:

I counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

I counted 4, 8, 12

I used a different way

✍️ Part 4: Explain Your Thinking

7. Write about how you found your answer. Use words like "groups", "altogether", "times", or "multiply".
8. Can you think of another way to solve this problem? Write it here:

🍎 Part 5: More Basket Problems

9. If you had 2 baskets with 5 apples in each basket, how many apples would you have?
10. Draw this new problem:
11. Fill in the blanks:

When we multiply, we are finding how many items we have when we put equal _______ together. In our first problem, we had _____ groups of _____ apples, which gave us _____ apples altogether.

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