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Art Room Sharing: Crayons, Clay, and Paintbrushes

Grade 3 division practice in the art room. Students share supplies equally, make groups of a given size, and explain what each quotient means.

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Aligned to3.OA.A.2

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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Short answer

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What students practice

Students divide to find how many objects are in each share when a total is shared equally.
Students divide to find how many equal groups can be made when the group size is known.
Students explain whether a quotient tells the size of each group or the number of groups.

How to use

Use after students have shared objects into equal groups with counters. For each story, ask whether the answer is a group size or a number of groups before they solve.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.OA.A.2

Understand a quotient as sharing into equal groups or making groups of a given size.

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Art Room Sharing: Crayons, Clay, and Paintbrushes

Find out what each division answer means.

Share the supplies

Share each set of art supplies equally. Find how many each group gets.

Ms. Okafor puts 40 glue sticks on 8 tables. Each table gets the same number of glue sticks.

40 ÷ 8 = glue sticks on each table

Priya deals 21 pipe cleaners to 3 friends. She gives them out one at a time, around and around, until none are left.

Each friend gets pipe cleaners.

Lucia has 24 paintbrushes. She puts them into 4 jars with the same number in each jar. She writes 24 ÷ 4 = 6. What does the 6 tell you?

A. the number of jars
B. the number of paintbrushes in all
C. the number of paintbrushes in each jar
D. the number of paintbrushes left over

Make groups of the same size

Each group has the same number. Find how many groups you can make.

Kenji has a strip of paper 18 inches long. He cuts it into pieces that are each 3 inches long. The dots show where each piece starts and ends.

18 ÷ 3 = pieces

Zoe has 24 sheets of paper. She puts 8 sheets on each table. She takes away 8 sheets at a time until none are left:
24 − 8 = 16, then 16 − 8 = 8, then 8 − 8 = 0

Zoe puts paper on tables.

Sofia has 45 googly eyes. She glues 5 googly eyes on each paper puppet. She writes 45 ÷ 5 = 9. What does the 9 tell you?

A. the number of googly eyes on each puppet
B. the number of googly eyes in all
C. the number of googly eyes left over
D. the number of puppets Sofia decorates

Malik has 42 colored pencils. He wraps them in bundles of 6 pencils with a rubber band.

42 ÷ 6 = bundles

Same numbers, different meanings

Read each story carefully. Does the answer tell the size of each group or the number of groups?

Every story below has the answer 5. Match each story to what the 5 means.

15 paint cups are shared equally by 3 tables. How many cups does each table get?
15 paint cups are set out with 3 cups at each table. How many tables get cups?
20 brushes are put into 4 jars equally. How many brushes are in each jar?
20 brushes are put into jars with 4 brushes in each jar. How many jars are used?

A. 5 jars
B. 5 paint cups at each table
C. 5 brushes in each jar
D. 5 tables

Ms. Okafor has 12 balls of clay.

If she shares them equally among 3 students, each student gets balls of clay.
If she gives each student 2 balls of clay, students get clay.

10.

Which stories can you solve with 32 ÷ 8? Choose all that work.

A. 32 crayons are shared equally in 8 boxes. How many crayons are in each box?
B. There are 8 boxes with 32 crayons in each box. How many crayons are there in all?
C. 32 crayons are packed with 8 crayons in each box. How many boxes are filled?
D. Ben has 32 crayons. He gets 8 more. How many crayons does he have now?

11.

Which story matches 30 ÷ 6 = 5, where the 5 is the number of groups?

A. 30 stickers are shared equally by 6 kids. Each kid gets 5 stickers.
B. 30 stickers are put on pages with 6 stickers on each page. They fill 5 pages.
C. 6 kids each have 5 stickers. They have 30 stickers in all.