Share and divide: 3rd grade math
Division as sharing and as grouping. A free 3rd grade lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students can do this: division as sharing and as grouping.
Teach (10 min)
- 12 ÷ 3 means 12 shared into 3 equal groups.
- Deal them out one at a time until they're gone.
- Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.
Practise (15 min)
- Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
- Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/whole.share?lesson=3-share&at=3
Exit ticket (5 min)
- Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.
Printable sheet
Name: ____________________ Date: ____________
Share and divide (3rd grade)
- 9 apples shared fairly by 3 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 8 acorns shared fairly by 4 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 12 strawberries shared fairly by 4 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 8 acorns shared fairly by 4 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 4 pebbles shared fairly by 2 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 20 cookies shared fairly by 4 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 8 crayons shared fairly by 2 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 36 stickers shared fairly by 6 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 10 buttons shared fairly by 2 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 8 strawberries shared fairly by 2 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 15 acorns shared fairly by 3 friends. How many does each friend get?
- 20 strawberries shared fairly by 5 friends. How many does each friend get?
Key
- 3
- 2
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 5
- 4
- 6
- 5
- 4
- 5
- 4
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