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3rd grade · Math · Unit 7 of 18

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).

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: 3.4(H); 3.4(J) · sharing into equal groups and finding quotients from multiplication facts

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 Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 7 of 18 in 3rd grade Math, after Times Tens and before Patterns & Equations.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    4 × 2 = 8. So what is 8 ÷ 4?

    8 ÷ 4 = ?

    • 4
    • 1
    • 3
    • 2

  2. Question 2

    What number goes in the box?

    3 × = 15

    • 5
    • 4
    • 6
    • 12

  3. Question 3

    What is 8 ÷ 4?

    8 ÷ 4 = ?

    answer box

  4. Question 4

    There are 25 cookies. Each bag gets 5. How many bags are needed?

    • 6
    • 5
    • 4
    • 7

  5. Question 5

    Which number sentence matches the story?

    20 apples are shared equally into 5 baskets.

    How many go in each basket?

    • 20 − 5
    • 20 × 5
    • 20 ÷ 5
    • 20 + 5

  6. Question 6

    These 12 ⭐ are in 3 equal rows. How many are in each row?

    answer box

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