Curriculum placement
Grade 3. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Multiplication and division word problems
Select multiplication or division to model a story
Problem types
- Choose the operation for a story
- Solve a multiplication or division story
- Choose the operations of a story
- Choose the linked equations for a two-step sharing story
- Choose the sentence for equal groups
Builds on
- Division as sharing and grouping
- Equations for addition and subtraction stories · Earlier idea
Choosing the operation from a story begins with joining and separating. Later stories add equal groups, where the story still decides whether to add, subtract, multiply or divide.
Leads to
Related skills
- Quotients from related facts · Shared foundations
- A fraction as division · Shared foundations
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