Division by 3 Reasoning

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🧠 Part 1: Division Reasoning

1. Sarah has 24 stickers. She wants to share them equally amongst 3 friends. How many stickers will each friend get? Explain your reasoning.

2. Tom says "36 ÷ 3 = 11". Is he correct? Explain your answer and show the correct calculation.

3. Which of these numbers can be divided by 3 exactly (with no remainder)? Circle all correct answers.

Explain how you knew: _________________________________________________

4. A baker has 45 cupcakes. He puts them into boxes of 3. How many full boxes can he make? Will there be any cupcakes left over?

5. Look at this pattern: 3, 6, 9, 12, _____, _____, 21. Fill in the missing numbers and explain the pattern.

Missing numbers: _______ and _______

6. Mrs Jones has £60 to buy books. Each book costs £3. How many books can she buy? Show two different ways to solve this problem.

Method 1:

Method 2:

7. Challenge: If 72 ÷ 3 = 24, use this fact to work out 73 ÷ 3. Explain your thinking.

8. Create your own word problem that involves dividing by 3. Then solve it.

My problem:

My solution:

I can:

Divide two-digit numbers by 3 accurately

Explain my reasoning using mathematical language

Solve word problems involving division by 3

Spot patterns in division by 3

Check my answers make sense