grouping

«grouping» in Mova's school dictionary: put together because they are alike or work together — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a grouping, groupings); verb form (group, groups, grouped, grouping)

meaning for a pupil

1) A set of people or things that are put together because they are alike or work together. tree →

2) The act of putting things into groups. tree →

3) (maths) Putting numbers or objects into equal groups to help count, multiply or divide; also using brackets to group parts of a calculation. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths lessons grouping helps with multiplication (3 groups of 4 = 12), division (sharing into groups) and place value (grouping into tens). In science, grouping or classifying animals and materials by features is a key skill. In class, teachers arrange pupils in groupings for tasks. In politics a grouping is a set of parties or countries working together. Phrases: grouping in tens, ability grouping, a political grouping.

examples

• We used grouping to count the beads in tens. tree →
• 20 sweets shared by grouping into 5s gives 4 groups. tree →
• In science we did a grouping of animals by what they eat. tree →
• The teacher changed the table groupings this week. tree →
• Brackets show the grouping in 2 × (3 + 4). tree →
• A new grouping of countries agreed to work together on climate. tree →
• Grouping words by their spelling patterns helps me learn them. tree →

note

Countable: a grouping, groupings. In maths, «grouping» for division means: how many groups of a given size fit into a number, e.g. 12 ÷ 3 = 4 groups of 3. Brackets change the grouping and so the answer: (2 + 3) × 4 = 20, but 2 + 3 × 4 = 14.

In the corpora

• Grouping: 12 apples put into bags of 3 fill 12 ÷ 3 = 4 bags.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «grouping» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.