Solve Division Word Problems with Equal Groups

Students solve one-step word problems involving division within 100, covering both equal-sharing and measurement situations. They practice identifying which quantity is the total, which is the divisor, and what the quotient represents in context.

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Grade 3 · Multiplication and Division Word Problems · question 1 of 3

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Kofi has 12 cookies and sets them in rows of 6. How many rows does he make?

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A sharing story is division into equal groups.

The total is split so each bag gets the same.

Read it: Share equally: deal round

12 apples shared equally into 4 trays. Deal round: each tray gets 3.

Find the total and the number of groups.
Deal 1 to each group, round and round.
Count 1 group: 12 ÷ 4 = 3.

Shared equally means every group gets the same.

Each round uses 4 apples, so 3 rounds use all 12.

4 groups of 3 make 12, so 12 ÷ 4 = 3.

In a sharing story, divide the total by the number of groups.

Multiplying 12 by 4 instead of sharing the 12 out.

Shared equally means divide: 12 ÷ 4 = 3 in each.

6 apples are shared equally into 3 bags. How many apples are in each bag? — 2. Deal round into 3 bags: each gets 2. 6 ÷ 3 = 2, because 3 × 2 = 6.

15 ÷ 3

Maya has fifteen stickers. She wants to share them equally with her two friends. How many stickers does each person get?

First, let's find the total. There are fifteen stickers in all.

Next, the groups. Maya and her two friends make three people sharing.

So we write fifteen divided by three.

Let's deal them out, one to each person, until they're all gone.

Each person ends up with five stickers.

Grade 3 · Sharing 15 stickers among 3 friends

That means fifteen divided by three equals five.

We can check: three groups of five is fifteen. It works!

Each friend gets five stickers. Great sharing!

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics

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A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.

Today’s goal: 1 star — one skill mastered, every rung of its ladder climbed
Climbing now: Divide within 100

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics

Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.

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CCSS.3.OA.A.3

Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities

Grade 3

Quoted from the Common Core State Standards.

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A star here is the top of a twelve-rung ladder, in four blocks of equal length — three of facts and one of the skill used in a real question — where a right answer climbs one rung and a wrong one drops back to the start of the block, never below it. The star is kept for good. How we grade

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This is one rung of 104 in Grade 3 mathematics, in the order they build on each other.

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