Drawing Arrays Examples for Grade 2: Solved Problems

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🔢 An array is a way to arrange objects in equal rows and equal columns.
• ✖️ Multiplication can be visualized using arrays. Each row represents one group, and the number of columns represents the number of items in each group.
• 📝 To find the total number of objects in an array, multiply the number of rows by the number of columns.
• 🖼️ Drawing arrays helps understand multiplication in a visual and intuitive manner.
• ➕ Arrays can also be thought of as repeated addition (e.g., 3 rows of 4 is the same as 4 + 4 + 4).

Practice Quiz

1. What multiplication problem does this array represent: 2 rows of 5 items?
   1. $2 \times 5$
   2. $5 \times 5$
   3. $2 \times 2$
2. Draw an array to represent $3 \times 4$. How many items are in the array in total?
   1. 7
   2. 12
   3. 34
3. Which array represents 4 rows of 3?
   1. An array with 3 rows and 4 columns.
   2. An array with 4 rows and 4 columns.
   3. An array with 4 rows and 3 columns.
4. What is the product of $5 \times 2$ represented as an array?
   1. 5
   2. 7
   3. 10
5. If you have an array with 3 rows and each row has 6 items, how many items are there in all?
   1. 9
   2. 18
   3. 36
6. Which multiplication sentence is shown by an array with 6 rows and 1 column?
   1. $6 \times 6$
   2. $6 \times 1$
   3. $1 \times 1$
7. You want to arrange 8 cookies on a tray in an array. Which array arrangement would work?
   1. 2 rows of 3
   2. 2 rows of 4
   3. 3 rows of 3