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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).

Arizona Academic Standards learning standard: 3.OA.A.2; 3.OA.B.6; 3.OA.C.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 Arizona

In the Arizona Academic Standards, 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: Arizona Department of Education

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

    There are 6 cookies. Each bag gets 3. How many bags are needed?

    • 3
    • 2
    • 4
    • 1

  2. Question 2

    Which number sentence matches the story?

    8 stickers are shared equally onto 2 pages.

    How many go on each page?

    • 8 − 2
    • 8 ÷ 2
    • 8 × 2
    • 8 + 2

  3. Question 3

    Ana puts 4 apples into 2 baskets, the same number in each. How many apples go in each basket?

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  4. Question 4

    What number goes in the box?

    5 × = 10

    • 2
    • 1
    • 3
    • 5

  5. Question 5

    What is 12 ÷ 3?

    12 ÷ 3 = ?

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  6. Question 6

    These 10 🍓 are in 2 equal rows. How many are in each row?

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