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Division Word Problems

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Sharing equally, how many groups, arrays and measurement stories within 100, with room to draw a model, a number sentence line and keys with bar models.

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Division word problems

Mixed sharing, grouping, array and measurement stories, then pages for sharing equally and for how many groups.

Print at 100% (actual size) for the cleanest tracing lines.

About these division word problems worksheets

Division stories ask one of two things. How many in each group? (24 stickers shared among 4 friends.) Or how many groups? (24 stickers, 4 for each friend: how many friends?) Children who can tell these two apart can solve almost any 3rd grade division problem.

Each page has three stories with a box to draw, a line for the division sentence and an answer box with the unit. The sharing pages and the how-many-groups pages practice one meaning at a time, and the mixed pages put them together. The keys draw a bar model with the missing part boxed.

Every page has an answer key on page 2 and prints in black and white on US Letter or A4.

Standards

  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.3Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
  • CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.2Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.

How to use them

  1. Act out a sharing story with counters, then a grouping story, before the first page.
  2. Use Sharing Equally Word Problems and How Many Groups? Word Problems before the mixed pages.
  3. Ask children to say what the answer counts: stickers each, or friends?
  4. Check every answer with multiplication.

Teaching tips

  • In a sharing story the number of groups is given. In a grouping story the size of each group is given.
  • The total always comes first in the division sentence: 24 ÷ 4.
  • Draw the groups as circles and deal the counters one at a time, like dealing cards.
  • Multiply to check: 6 friends with 4 each is 24.

Questions teachers and parents ask

How do you know a word problem is division?

The total is given and you are splitting it into equal groups. If the story asks how many in each group or how many groups, it is division.

Are there answer keys?

Yes. Page 2 of every PDF shows the division sentence, a bar model and the answer.