I pick up my pencil and I compose
An array with three columns and four rows
Three groups of four help me to see better
There are twelve circles all together
This array has five rows and three columns
Grouping can help us solve these problems
Five plus five plus five equals fifteen
Now we're mastering this routine
We can count objects in many ways
Like counting groups found in arrays
Rows go across, columns go up and down
Equal groups help us tally how many we've found
How many we've found
On my tablet I compose an array with four columns and five rows
Four groups of five are on the display
There are twenty clownfish in the array
This array has three columns and two rows
It's easy for us to see how this one goes
Because we know three plus three equals six
Adding groups is such a cool math trick
We can count objects in many ways
Like counting groups found in arrays
Rows go across, columns go up and down
Equal groups help us tally how many we've found
How many we've found
An array shows addition done in repetition
And this is the foundation for multiplication
For example, three plus three plus three equals nine
What we've done is we have added three, three separate times
So we could say the array is three times three
To multiply, just add and repeat
We can count objects in many ways
Like counting groups found in arrays
Rows go across, columns go up and down
Equal groups help us tally how many we've found
How many we've found