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Contributor: Joanna D'Orazio Mignella. Lesson ID: 14151
Imagine visiting an aquarium with a tank full of octopi. Counting their legs might be tricky, but this lesson will teach you how to skip count by 8s to make it easy and fast!
Imagine seeing four octopi swimming around—you’d be counting a lot of arms! That's 32 arms in total, all moving in the water.
But here’s something even cooler: an octopus has blue blood and three hearts! With all that going on, they need those extra hearts to keep things moving.
Skip counting by 8s can make it super easy. Dive into the ocean of numbers and see how it's done!
If you saw four octopi swimming by, it might be tricky to count all their arms. But don’t worry—mathematicians use a cool trick called skip counting to make counting easier!
You can skip count by 8s to figure out how many arms there are.
Give it a try!
If each octopus has 8 arms, and there are 4 of them, skip counting by 8 looks like this.
8, 16, 24, 32
That’s 32 arms in total! Wow!
Here’s how skip counting helps: when you skip count by 8s, you can quickly solve multiplication facts.
Practice with this pattern.
Multiplying With Skip Counting
You can solve this by skip counting.
8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64
So, 8 x 8 = 64!
Great job! Skip counting by 8s is a really neat multiplication trick.
Dance It Out!
Now that you've got the hang of skip counting, make it even more fun!
Put on your dance shoes and count by 8s while you move along to this fun dance video.
Fantastic!
Practice Makes Perfect
You’re doing amazing!
Now, try using the skip counting song to help you solve these multiplication problems.
Awesome job! You’re becoming a pro at counting by 8s.
When ready, head to the Got It? section for more fun practice.
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