Grade 4 - Tables and Shares

Learning Outcomes:
1. Making multiplication facts for 2,3,4,5 and 10
2. Understanding equal grouping and equal distribution
3. Learn the meaning of division from the context of equal grouping and sharing
4. Making multiplication questions around daily life problems and solving them
5. Learn to relate division with multiplication.
6. Learn to complete division facts: by grouping & using the multiplication table.

Introduction:
Real-life connections: The teacher asked each student to collect 3 pebbles from the garden for a fish
tank. All the 7 students in the class brought 5 stones each. Now the teacher asked, “how many
pebbles are collected in total?”
Now the teacher drew pebbles on the board against the student’s name and showed the total number
of pebbles visually.
Note: The teacher can pose such questions connected with their real-life – changing the number of
objects and number of students. During this process the teacher will make the students understand
that multiplication is nothing but repeated addition. The teacher will introduce the vocabulary
‘TIMES’ here.
Assessment questions:
1. What is 4 times 3?
2. What is 5 times 7?
3. Is 4 times 3 the same as 3 times 4?
4. How many pairs like this you can make?
(Note: Ask the students to write in their notebooks how many pairs they can make that is like 4 x 3
and 3 x 4)
Activity: Play with Domino Card Making multiplication questions around daily life problems and solving
them.

Game 1: Addition/Multiplication draw

Materials: Domino Cards (5 Sets)
Objective: To calculate the multiplication fact correctly.
Process: Deal out all the cards to the two players. One player call, ‘Draw’ and both players turn over
their top card and place it face up in the center. The players add or multiply the two numbers that are
drawn and the first player to say the answer out loud wins the two cards.
Who wins? After all cards have been used, the players count the number of cards that they have won.
The winner is the person who has the most cards.

Game 2: Division draw

Materials: Domino Cards
Objective: To calculate if a number is divisible
Process: Shuffle cards and place face down in a pile in the centre of the players. Each player draws
two cards from the centre pile. If one of a player’s cards can be evenly divided into the other, the
player keeps these two cards. If one cannot be divided evenly into the other, the player returns their
cards to the pile which is shuffled and placed in the centre. e.g. 8 can be divided evenly by 4, so a
player would keep 8 and 4, but 4 cannot divide evenly into 7 so a player wouldn’t keep 4 and 7.
Who wins? Each player adds the value of the cards they have won until one player reaches 50 and
becomes the winner.

Introduction to Division:
Interaction in the class - The teacher should get the correct answers to the questions that are given in
the second column from the students. Through mental calculation and through their previous
experience of sharing, most students will be able to answers the following questions correctly:
Questions to introduce division (Can we share):
1. Have you ever shared chocolates with your brother?
2. How will your teacher share biscuits with you?
3. How will you share 4 chocolates equally with your friend?
4. How will you share 8 chocolates equally among 4 friends?
5. How will you share 6 dosas equally among 2 friends?
After these questions have been asked, the teacher can ask similar questions with numbers more than
ten. The teacher should draw pictures and write numbers on the board to show the concept of
division.
Simultaneously, the teacher should write down the corresponding numbers on the board and subtract
every time an object is shared. After showing a few examples, the teacher can conclude that division
is nothing but repeated subtraction, thereby proving that division is not difficult and easy to do.
Assessment questions:
1. There are 4 biscuits. How will you and your brother eat them equally?
2. Kavitha brought 9 chocolates for her 3 friends. How many chocolates will each one get?
3. The teacher brought 15 marbles for her students. Each student in her class shared them equally.
How many students were there in her class?

Activity: To strengthen equal sharing.

Step1: Give the students some popsicles.
Step 2: The students should count the number of popsicles and write it in their notebooks.
Step 3: The students should make groups of 2 popsicles. The students should write down in them
notebook how many such bundles are there and how many sticks are left. In the same way, they can
make bundles of 3, 4, and so on.
Step 3: Simultaneously, ask the students to write it in their notebook.
Note: The same can be done with the help of counters; grouping counters.

Game Card: Division square

As shown in the example,
Step 1: The teacher can provide the students with some cards having a few filled up division facts.
Step 2: If the students can solve the problems, the teacher can give an empty card to the students and
ask them to make their own game card.
(Note: Any multiplication fact can be fit into the card as well.)

Other Activities for Classroom Engagement:

1) Give 50 buttons to students on each bench. Give them 10 plastic covers. Ask them to pack the
buttons equally in each packet. Repeat the activity with different number of packets. Write the
corresponding division facts.
2) Draw a number line in the classroom. Children are asked to jump 2 equal steps, 3 equal steps,4
equal steps etc. starting from 0. Ask them to find out how many jumps they must make to reach 24.
3) Arrange the desks in the classroom with different combinations and ask children to write
multiplication facts.
4) Arrange 48 flowers in different ways and write the multiplication facts of each.
5) Divide the children into different groups and give fake notes of different denominations.

Find out
a) How many 5-rupee notes make 100 rupees.
b) How many 10-rupee notes make 100 rupees.
c) Repeat the activity with 500- and 1000-rupee notes.
✩ 2 times table
Count in 2s, color, and find a pattern.

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6 7 8 9 10

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Write the answers.

1x2 = 2 2x2 = 3x2 = 4x2 =

5x2 = 6x2 = 7x2 = 8x2 =

9x2 = 10 x 2 =

How many ears?

5 sets of 2 5 x 2 = 10 ears

sets of 2 x = ears

sets of 2 x = ears

sets of 2 x = ears

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9x2= 18 10 x 2 = 20

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5 2 sets of 2 2 x 2 = 4 ears
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✩ 3 times table
Count in 3s, color, and find a pattern.

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20

21 22 23 24 25

Write the answers.

1x3= 3 2x3= 3x3= 4x3= 5x3=

How many flowers?

2 sets of 3 2 x 3 = 6

sets of 3 x =

sets of 3 x =

sets of 3 x =

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23 1x3= 3 2x3= 6 3x3= 9 4x3= 12 5x3= 15
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✩ 10 times table
Count in 10s, color, and find a pattern.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100

Write the answers.

1 x 10 = 10 2 x 10 = 3 x 10 = 4 x 10 =

5 x 10 = 6 x 10 = 7 x 10 = 8 x 10 =

10 x 10 = 9 x 10 =

Each box contains 10 crayons. How many crayons are there altogether?

2 sets of 10 2 x 10 = 20 crayons

sets of 10 x = crayons

sets of 10 x = crayons

sets of 10 x = crayons

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23 1 x 10 = 10 2 x 10 = 20 3 x 10 = 30 4 x 10 = 40
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25 5 x 10 = 50 6 x 10 = 60 7 x 10 = 70 8 x 10 = 80
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Create multiplication questions based on the pictures below:
Solve these problems:
1. If you have 12 apples and want to divide them equally into 3 baskets, how many apples will
go in each basket?

2. There are 20 candies to be shared equally among 4 friends. How many candies will each
friend get?

3. There are 24 chairs in the classroom. If you arrange them in 4 equal rows, how many chairs
will be in each row?

4. You have 15 toy cars and want to make 5 groups with the same number of cars in each group.
How many cars will be in each group?

5. A baker has 30 cookies. She wants to pack them into 6 boxes with the same number of
cookies in each box. How many cookies will each box have?

6. There are 18 children at the park. If they want to form 3 equal teams, how many children will
be in each team?

7. You have 16 balloons and want to give them equal to 4 friends. How many balloons will each
friend get?

8. There are 36 plates. If you set the table for 6 people with the same number of plates for each
person, how many plates will each person get?

9. A gardener has 25 trees and wants to plant them in 5 equal rows. How many trees will be in
each row?

10. You have 28 marbles to share equally among 7 friends. How many marbles will each friend
get?
Solve the problems below:

1. If 24 apples are divided into groups of 6, how many groups will there be?

2. What is 42 ÷ 7? Use the multiplication table to find which number multiplied by 7 equals 42.

3. There are 36 chocolates. If each child gets 9 chocolates, how many children are there?

4. If 56 chairs are arranged in rows of 8, how many rows are there?

5. What number goes in the blank? 6 × ___ = 54, so 54 ÷ 6 = ___.

6. You have 32 cookies. If you group them into sets of 4, how many sets will you have?

7. If 8 × 5 = 40, then what is 40 ÷ 8? How do you know?

8. There are 45 marbles shared equally among 5 boys. How many marbles does each boy get?

9. What is 63 ÷ 9? Use the multiplication table to find the answer.

10. There are 18 toy cars. If you make 3 equal groups, how many toy cars will be in each group?