Art Room Sharing: Crayons, Clay, and Paintbrushes
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Find out what each division answer means.
Share the supplies
Share each set of art supplies equally. Find how many each group gets.
1.
Ms. Okafor puts 40 glue sticks on 8 tables. Each table gets the same number of glue sticks.
40 ÷ 8 = glue sticks on each table
2.
Priya deals 21 pipe cleaners to 3 friends. She gives them out one at a time, around and around, until none are left.
Each friend gets pipe cleaners.
3.
Lucia has 24 paintbrushes. She puts them into 4 jars with the same number in each jar. She writes 24 ÷ 4 = 6. What does the 6 tell you?
Make groups of the same size
Each group has the same number. Find how many groups you can make.
4.
Kenji has a strip of paper 18 inches long. He cuts it into pieces that are each 3 inches long. The dots show where each piece starts and ends.
18 ÷ 3 = pieces
5.
Zoe has 24 sheets of paper. She puts 8 sheets on each table. She takes away 8 sheets at a time until none are left:
24 − 8 = 16, then 16 − 8 = 8, then 8 − 8 = 0
24 − 8 = 16, then 16 − 8 = 8, then 8 − 8 = 0
Zoe puts paper on tables.
6.
Sofia has 45 googly eyes. She glues 5 googly eyes on each paper puppet. She writes 45 ÷ 5 = 9. What does the 9 tell you?
7.
Malik has 42 colored pencils. He wraps them in bundles of 6 pencils with a rubber band.
42 ÷ 6 = bundles
Same numbers, different meanings
Read each story carefully. Does the answer tell the size of each group or the number of groups?
8.
Every story below has the answer 5. Match each story to what the 5 means.
9.
Ms. Okafor has 12 balls of clay.
If she shares them equally among 3 students, each student gets balls of clay.
If she gives each student 2 balls of clay, students get clay.
10.
Which stories can you solve with 32 ÷ 8? Choose all that work.
11.
Which story matches 30 ÷ 6 = 5, where the 5 is the number of groups?
12.
Write an art room story for 28 ÷ 4 where the answer tells how many groups there are. Then solve it.