Division Sharing and Grouping

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🎯 WALT: Understand division as sharing and grouping

Success Criteria:

✓ I can explain division using real-life scenarios

✓ I can show division by sharing and grouping using drawings

✓ I can solve basic division problems

📚 Part 1: Understanding Division

1. Circle the correct answer. What does division help us do?

Share things equally

Make things bigger

Count backwards

2. Look at this problem: "12 lollies shared between 4 children". What are we trying to find?

How many lollies each child gets

How many more lollies we need

How many lollies in total

3. Draw circles or dots to solve: 8 stickers shared equally between 2 friends. How many stickers does each friend get?

Answer: Each friend gets _______ stickers

Number sentence: 8 ÷ 2 = _______

4. Draw groups to solve: Put 15 counters into groups of 3. How many groups can you make?

Answer: I can make _______ groups

Number sentence: 15 ÷ 3 = _______

✏️ Part 2: Word Problems

5. SUPPORT: Sarah has 6 apples. She wants to share them equally between 3 baskets. Draw the apples in each basket.

Each basket has _______ apples

6. MAIN: There are 20 students in the class. The teacher wants to put them into groups of 4 for an activity. How many groups will there be? Show your working.

Number sentence: _______ ÷ _______ = _______

7. EXTENSION: A baker has 23 cupcakes. She wants to put them into boxes of 6. How many full boxes can she make? How many cupcakes will be left over?

Full boxes: _______

Left over: _______

8. Explain in your own words: What is the difference between sharing and grouping in division?