Grade 3 · Math · Lesson 12

Division as Sharing and Grouping

Division means splitting a total into equal parts. There are two ways to think about division: equal sharing (sharing a total among a fixed number of people or containers) and equal grouping (making groups of a fixed size from a total).

What this lesson teaches

1Explain division as equal sharing of a quantity among a given number of groups
2Explain division as equal grouping by separating a total into groups of a given size
3Write a division equation to match a sharing or grouping scenario

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