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Equal Groups in the School Garden

Grade 3 school garden practice with equal groups. Students write multiplication sentences and link repeated addition to multiplication.

Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3.OA.A.1

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1 Common Core standard
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13 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students interpret a × b as the total number of objects in a groups of b objects each.
Students write multiplication sentences for described equal groups and tell equal from unequal groups.
Students rewrite repeated addition of equal groups as multiplication.

How to use

Use after introducing multiplication as equal groups. Have students sketch circles and dots for each garden story before they write the multiplication sentence.

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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Equal Groups in the School Garden

Write multiplication sentences for rows, baskets, and seed packets.

Write the multiplication sentence

Read about each garden group. In a multiplication sentence, the first number tells how many groups. The second number tells how many are in each group.

Ms. Lopez's class plants 4 rows of tomato plants. Each row has 5 plants.

Number of rows:
Plants in each row:
4 × 5 = plants

Jamal fills 3 baskets with carrots. He puts 6 carrots in each basket.

groups of carrots = carrots

Priya has 5 packets of bean seeds. There are 8 seeds in each packet.

× = seeds

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