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🧮 3rd Grade · Math3.OA.A.2Unit 2: Meaning of division

Making equal groups

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🎯 Objective: Students divide by finding how many groups of a size can be made.

Lesson outline

  1. 20 pencils, 4 in each cup: how many cups? Students act it out.
  2. Compare with sharing: here we know the group size and find the number of groups.
  3. Solve 24 ÷ 6 both ways with counters and talk about which story fits.
  4. Exit: 18 ÷ 3 — write a grouping story.

Lesson 2 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

3.OA.A.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 3 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Interpret division as sharing or grouping
  • Relate division to multiplication as an unknown-factor problem

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Multiplication & division within 100🖨️ Worksheet: Multiplication Facts 2–10📚 All 3rd Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Meaning of division”

  1. Sharing equally
  2. Making equal groups
  3. Division as unknown factor
  4. Unknowns in equations
  5. Division word problems

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