Share the laddoos
Drag a laddoo onto a plate, or tap a laddoo and then a plate.
Plates
Fair shares!
The pile
Well played! Now try the real one.
Sharing twelve real almonds into three katoris is the same fair sharing with things your child can hold. The activity then turns it round into three times what makes twelve, which is where division starts to click.
The Sharing Bowls →Play it together
Let your child share the laddoos one at a time into each plate, like dealing cards. When the plates are fair, read the two sentences out loud together. Then ask it the other way round: three times what makes twelve?
What it practises
Sharing equally, the start of division. That is all we claim for it. The real version,The Sharing Bowls, does the same job with things from your kitchen, and does it better.
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Questions parents ask
How does sharing laddoos teach division?
Division is fair sharing, and children already know how to share fairly. When the plates are equal, the game says it both ways: 12 shared into 3 plates is 4 each, and 3 times 4 makes 12. Every division fact is a times fact read backwards, so ask it as three times what makes twelve.
What happens in the round with one laddoo left over?
Seven laddoos do not share equally into two plates. Each plate gets 3 and 1 is left over. That leftover is the remainder. Meeting it as a real thing that nobody gets is easier to understand than meeting it first as a rule.