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# Cookies for Everyone

Math story 8 · Multiplication · Grades 2–3 · 0:36

## Read the story

The chicken family is setting the table.

There are 3 plates on the table.

Papa Rooster puts 4 cookies on each plate.

**How many cookies are on all the plates together?**

## Answer and working

There are 12 cookies! Because 4 plus 4 plus 4 is 12. That is 3 times 4.

`3 × 4 = 12`