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Little Twelvetoes

From Schoolhouse Rock! · 1973

Little Twelvetoes
3 min2nd3rd4th5thMath
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Summary

A gentle, spacey song imagining an alien with twelve toes who counts by twelves with ease, stretching kids into the twelves table.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A gentle, spacey song imagining an alien with twelve toes who counts by twelves with ease, stretching kids into the twelves table..

  1. Why would having twelve toes make counting by twelves easy?
  2. What is a dozen?
  3. How could the tens and twos help you find a twelve fact?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: multiply, dozen, twelves.

Try it: Count by twelves to 60 and explain how 12 = 10 + 2 can help.