N2.6

Bloom Machine

Grow a star out of equal groups: choose how many arms, and how many sparks ride on EACH arm, so the sparks all together make the target.

🎯 Every arm holds the same number of sparks — arms × sparks-per-arm must equal the target.

Mode

Arms 3 how many equal groups

Sparks on each arm 2 size of one group

Unroll into a grid see the same sparks as rows × columns

Multiplication is just equal groups. Here each arm is one group and every arm carries the same number of sparks — so the whole star is sparks + sparks + … added up once for each arm. Turn on Share to do it backwards: split one pile evenly between the arms.

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