Lizbeth Gonzalez

Lesson Plan: Solving Word Problems with Division

Students: third grade

Time: Approximately 50 minutes

Materials: Blocks/stickers/little objects, construction paper, coloring

utensils (crayons, markers, etc)

Concepts/skills: MAFS.3.OA.1.3 Represent and solve problems involving

multiplication and division

Standards-based objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be

able to solve word problems using simple division and create their own
word problems.

Open:
1. Show video about division story problems: https://youtu.be/r1HfqcyDP2s
2. Explain to students that they will be learning how to solve word
problems using division.
3. Review new word problems using addition and subtraction. Eg:
a. Samantha wanted to give her friends candy. She had 5
chocolates, 12 caramels, and 7 pieces of licorice. How many
pieces of candy did Samantha have altogether?
b. Charlie has 20 stickers. He gave 5 stickers to Ava, 4 stickers to
Anthony, and 6 stickers to David. How many stickers does Charlie
have left?
4. Explain to students why this concept is important and how I use it in
life. Eg: dividing students in groups, etc
Body:
1. Explain to students the key words to look for when deciding if a word
problem requires division.
2. Divide students in small groups and give them some small blocks,
stickers, or other things to use as a visual representation of division.
3. practice some problems with the class and show them how to use the
physical object to help them figure out the problems.
4. After practicing some problems, give the groups opportunities to
solve the problems without teacher’s assistance.

Close:
Have students create and draw out their own problems and present
them to the class.
Criteria: The object needs to have double digits. Be creative, use
interests and lots of colors! Eg:

Assessment:
For the assessment, students will complete a worksheet that has
different division word problems that include interest inventories of the
class. This could be started together in class and finished individually in
class. Eg:
 Sarah, Eli, and Abby love kittens, so they decided to start a cat
babysitting business. One day they were asked to take care of 24
kittens, how many kittens will they each take care of?

Differentiation: Accommodations for students with learning disabilities

could include lowering amount of problems to solve. Modifications for
gifted students could be increasing the difficulty of the problems to
solve. For example, their worksheet could contain problems that have
three digits. Eg:
Mr. Utria has 168 special marbles that he wants to divide evenly
between his class of 24 students. How many marbles will each student
receive?
For ESL students, one could translate their problems to give them a
better understanding or use simple and straightforward language in the
word problems.