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# Two Cookies Each

Math story 41 · Multiplication · Grade 2 · 0:36

## Read the story

Today there are cookies for dessert.

There are 3 plates on the table.

Papa Rooster puts 2 cookies on each plate.

**How many cookies are there altogether?**

## Answer and working

There are 6 cookies! Because 2 plus 2 plus 2 is 6. That is 3 times 2.

`3 × 2 = 6`