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Library Day Equal Groups: Shelves, Bookmarks, and Reading Buddies
Grade 3 practice on the meaning of multiplication: library stories about shelves, bins, and reading buddies show products as equal groups.
Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable
Aligned to3.OA.A.1
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What’s included
- Single worksheet
- Auto-graded online
- 1 Common Core standard
- Printable answer key
- 12 questions
- Classroom-ready
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 interpret a product such as 4 × 7 as the total in 4 groups of 7.
- Students write multiplication facts and repeated addition for equal-group stories.
- Students explain what each factor in a multiplication fact tells about a story.
How to use
Use when introducing multiplication. Let students draw a circle for each group and dots for the items before they write each fact.
Curriculum
Common Core standard covered
Understand a product as the total in a number of equal groups.
Preview
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Library Day Equal Groups: Shelves, Bookmarks, and Reading Buddies
Use equal groups to show what multiplication means.

Equal groups at the library
Read each story. Fill in the blanks.
groups of = picture books
Number of groups:
Number in each group:
Total: bookmarks
6 + 6 + 6 + 6 =
× 6 =
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