Triple the Feed Scoops

Four feed scoops filled one pen, neat and honest.

Triple it, said Spike. How many scoops for three pens?

Suzy tapped: four and four and four — twelve scoops. Three times four.

Not thirteen because hunger felt famous. Famous is not a counting stick.

They lined twelve scoops across three pens and left the bay calm.

Sheep appreciated the plan. Goats practised patient queue maths.

Adventure Cap wanted a dramatic pour. Care said fill enough, then stop.

Thinking Cap habit: name the groups, then multiply with looking. Cap does not invent scoops.

Kids: four blocks in a row — make three rows. Count the pile.

Farm times-tables are promises animals can trust later.

Tools remind. Scoops still get carried.

Three times four = twelve. Soft fill.

3 × 4 = twelve scoops.