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Sandcastles and Seashells: Equal Groups at the Beach

Grade 3 equal groups practice at the beach: find the total in equal groups with ten frames, stories, sorting, and multiplication.

Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3.OA.A.1

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 12 questions
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Details

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

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students describe a product such as 5 × 3 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 3.
  • Students find the total in equal groups and match multiplication expressions to group stories.
  • Students tell equal groups apart from groups that are not equal.

How to use

Use when introducing multiplication. Let students build each beach group with counters or draw circles for the groups before they write the total.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.OA.A.1

Understand a product as the total in a number of equal groups.

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Sandcastles and Seashells: Equal Groups at the Beach

See multiplication as the total in equal groups on a sunny beach day.

Count the equal groups

Look at each group. Fill in the blanks.

1.

Each ten frame is one sand bucket. Each dot is a shell.

How many buckets?  
How many shells are in each bucket?  
How many shells are there in all?  

2.

Each ten frame is one beach towel. Each dot is a pebble on the towel.

4 groups of   =   pebbles

3.
There are 6 sandcastles. Each sandcastle has 3 flags. Which multiplication matches the flags?
  • A. 6 + 3
  • B. 3 + 3 + 3
  • C. 6 × 6
  • D. 6 × 3

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