Fin, Snoot and Plimble use multiplication to find out how many meebs they have for chess.
NARRATOR: Hello Snoot. Hello Fin.
Hello cousin Plimble.
PLIMBLE: Plimble!
NARRATOR: What's that game you're playing?
ALL: (ALIEN LANGUAGE)
NARRATOR: Meeb chess鈥
Interesting.
And what exactly is a meeb?
SNOOT: Meeb!
NARRATOR: I see鈥
How many meebs have you got?
That鈥檚 1鈥 2鈥 3鈥 4鈥 5鈥 for Snoot, 6 for Fin and 6 for Plimble.
PLIMBLE: Plimble!
NARRATOR: How many is that altogether?
SNOOT: Erm鈥 Hmm鈥
NARRATOR: Well, if there are 3 players, and 6 meebs for each player, it鈥檒l be 3 times 6, which equals 18.
FIN: (ALIEN LANGUAGE)
NARRATOR: OK Fin, don鈥檛 get excited!
How would you work it out?
There鈥檚 6 meebs per player, and 3 players, so you prefer to multiply 6 times 3, which also equals鈥 18.
BOTH: Aha!
The fact is, it doesn鈥檛 matter which way round you do it when you multiply.
You can do 3 times 6 or 6 times 3, it still makes 18 every time.
So, who鈥檚 going first in this exciting game?
PLIMBLE: (SNORING)
NARRATOR: Ah鈥
Can you play with just two?
Which way round?
It doesn't matter which way round you multiply numbers. The answer is always the same.
2 x 3 is always the same as 3 x 2
Try it out by arranging objects into groups. Start with 2 groups of 3. Then rearrange this into 3 groups.
How many are in each group?
Quiz
Fin and Snoot use multiplication to help them pack for a holiday.
Snoot is shopping for blobs and eyeballs. He uses multiplication to find their total cost.
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