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3rd grade · Math · Unit 3 of 14

Division

Sharing and grouping

What your child practices

Understanding division as sharing fairly and as making equal groups, and using multiplication facts to divide (3 × 4 = 12, so 12 ÷ 3 = 4).

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 3.2; 3.6; 3.7 · division as sharing into equal groups and as an unknown factor, and dividing within 100

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Dividing shares things equally or makes equal groups.
  2. Think of the multiplication fact that goes with it.
  3. Ask: what times the divisor makes the number?

Example: 20 ÷ 4 = ? What times 4 makes 20? 4 × 5 = 20. Answer: 5

Division in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 3 of 14 in 3rd grade Math, after Multiplication and before Fractions.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What number goes in the box?

    2 × = 10

    • 5
    • 4
    • 6
    • 8

  2. Question 2

    Ana puts 20 apples into 5 baskets, the same number in each. How many apples go in each basket?

    answer box

  3. Question 3

    There are 25 flowers. Each vase gets 5. How many vases are needed?

    • 5
    • 4
    • 6
    • 7

  4. Question 4

    What is 10 ÷ 5?

    10 ÷ 5 = ?

    • 2
    • 5
    • 1
    • 3

  5. Question 5

    Which number sentence matches the story?

    15 apples are shared equally into 3 baskets.

    How many go in each basket?

    • 15 × 3
    • 15 + 3
    • 15 ÷ 3
    • 15 − 3

  6. Question 6

    What is 25 ÷ 5?

    25 ÷ 5 = ?

    answer box

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