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The Four-Legged Zoo

From Schoolhouse Rock! · 1973

The Four-Legged Zoo
3 min2nd3rd4th5thMath
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Summary

A trip to the zoo where every animal has four legs, making the fours easy to picture. Count the legs and you're multiplying by four.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

A trip to the zoo where every animal has four legs, making the fours easy to picture.

  1. How does counting animal legs help you multiply by four?
  2. What is 4 x 4 if each animal has four legs?
  3. How is multiplying by four like adding fours over and over?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: group, multiply, equal.

Try it: Draw five four-legged animals and skip-count the legs by fours.