Name: Mr.

Cruz

Grade Level: 3rd

Title of Lesson: Divisibility

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills/Standards: (4) Number and operations. The student applies
mathematical process standards to develop and use strategies and methods for whole number computations
in order to solve problems with efficiency and accuracy. The student is expected to:
(H) determine the number of objects in each group when a set of objects is partitioned into equal shares or
a set of objects is shared equally;

Objective/Purpose: Students will identify sharing or grouping in different scenarios and

figure out the quotients

Introduce Lesson: I showed them how to group counters to find a product. For example 2x3
they could either make two groups of three or three groups of two to find the answer. You will do
the same with them except now they need to find the quotient.

Example: This is a sharing problem: There are 12 cookies that need to be shared equally
among 4 people. How much should each person get? This is a grouping problem: There were
12 cookies in the cookie jar and each person got 3. How many people got 3 cookies each?

Lesson: You will give each student a set of counters (already in zip lock bags) and pass out the
paper that has 10 empty boxes in which will help them group their counters. Explain to them how
they can solve division problems by grouping or sharing counters into equal parts. Just give them
different types of scenarios e.g. there are 15 slices of pizza and if every person gets 3 slices, how
many people were there? Then you tell the students that this is a grouping problem because you
already know that each person is sharing 2 slices. Show them how to group their counters equally
in each box until finding out the answer, which is 5. Give them an example of a sharing (finding
the number of items in each group) problem by using the same numbers or you can use different
numbers. For example, there are 15 marbles and 5 kids, if each kid will get the same number of
marbles. How much should each kid get? Then you would say this is a sharing problem because
you already know there is a group of 5 kids. Tell them since we know there are 5 kids we only use
5 of the boxes, so we will put one counter in each box until we use all 15 counters. Each box
should have the same amount, which should be 3, this also happens to be the answer. Try and
do a couple more with them and have them figure out if its a sharing problem or grouping
problem then solve. Afterwards hand out the worksheet Labeled Sharing or Grouping? they will
cut and paste the word problems in either the sharing section or the grouping section. Once they
figure out were each word problem belongs they have to solve it. They have to show their work by
drawing counters and grouping them equally. They may do the worksheet with a partner or do it
independently I will leave that up to you to decide.

Re-Teach: If a student or students did not understand the lesson asks them questions on what
part they didnt understand. If they were confused about how on to identify whether a problem is a
sharing problem or a grouping problem go over some more examples with them. There might be
kids that you will need to work with one on one.

Sharing or Grouping?
Sharing

Grouping

Solve:

Solve:

Solve:

Solve:

Solve:

Solve:

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A teacher gave out 27 pencils

to 9 students. Each student got
the same number of pencils.
How many pencils did each
student get?

A baker made 27 cupcakes and

packed them in small boxes.
Each box held 3 cupcakes.
How many boxes of cupcakes
did he have?

A gardener had 28 seeds to

plant in pots. She decided to
plant 7 seeds in each pot. How
many pots of seeds did she
plant?

A class of 32 students were

divided equally into teams for a
relay race. Each relay team
had 4 students. How many
relay teams were there?

A shopkeeper was arranging a

display of hats in the window.
He had 28 hats to display in
rows. He decided to display 4
rows with the same number of
hats in each row. How many
hats were in each row?

A farmer had 32 pounds of

grain. He had 8 cows to feed.
Each animal was given the
same amount of grain. How
many pounds of grain did each
animal get?

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