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Bake Sale Muffin Tins: Turn Division into Multiplication

Grade 3 practice seeing division as an unknown factor problem, with bake sale stories about muffin tins, boxes, and trays.

Grade 3MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to3.OA.B.6

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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 rewrite a division problem as a multiplication fact with an unknown factor.
  • Students find a quotient by finding the missing factor in a related multiplication fact.

How to use

Use after students know some multiplication facts and are starting division. Have students say each division problem as a question, such as "what times 6 makes 42?", before they write the answer.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

3.OA.B.6

Understand division as finding an unknown factor.

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Bake Sale Muffin Tins: Turn Division into Multiplication

Solve each division problem by finding the factor that is missing.

Fill the tins

Read each bake sale story. Write the missing factor and the quotient.

1.
Each muffin tin holds 6 muffins. Grandpa Joe baked 42 muffins and filled every tin. How many tins did he fill?

  × 6 = 42
42 ÷ 6 =   tins

2.
Priya puts 32 cupcakes into 4 boxes. Each box gets the same number of cupcakes. How many cupcakes go in each box?

4 ×   = 32
32 ÷ 4 =   cupcakes in each box

3.
Sam has 45 cookies. He puts 5 cookies in each bag. Which multiplication fact helps him find how many bags he can fill?
  • A. 5 × 45 = ?
  • B. 5 + ? = 45
  • C. 45 × ? = 5
  • D. ? × 5 = 45

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