Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Division as sharing and grouping
Interpret division as equal sharing and grouping
Problem types
- Share or make groups
- Share equally among trays
- Measure equal pieces
- Match a story to an expression
- Sharing and grouping are the same quotient
Builds on
Leads to
Related skills
- Halves, thirds, and quarters · Related idea
Sharing a whole into equal parts is partitioning, and division finds the size of each equal share.
- A fraction times a whole number · Shared foundations
- One-digit multiplication facts · Shared foundations
- Properties of addition and multiplication · Shared foundations
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