Problem Solving
How do you use what you have learned to problem solve?
Goal:
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Practice!
Goal: Apply what you have learned about equal groups and division to solve a word problem.
Can you make equal groups to solve a problem? Read the problem. Get 40 pieces of cereal to make equal groups. Then click to see how to solve the problem!
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them into equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
30 \({ \div }\) 6 = ___
Here are the steps to solve a word problem.
Problem-Solving Steps
- Read the problem.
- Look for important information.
- Write a math sentence.
- Choose a way to solve.
- Solve and label your answer.
Now, click through the tabs below to solve the problem.
Find the Important Information
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them in equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
The first step is to read the problem. Then you need to look for the important information. The problem has the information you need. There are numbers, a key word, and a question. The dividend is highlighted in blue. The divisor is highlighted in red. The key words are circled. The question is underlined. Click Show Me to see!
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them in equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
30 and 6 are the important numbers. “Equal groups” are the key words. The question is the last sentence in the problem.
Write an Equation
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them in equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
30 \({ \div }\) 6 = ___
The problem gives us the division sentence. 30 is the dividend, because it is the biggest number. 6 is the divisor because it is the number of pieces of paper. We need to find the quotient, which will tell us how many stickers are on each piece of paper!
Choose a Way to Solve
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them in equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
30 \({ \div }\) 6 = ___
Use the pieces of cereal to solve. Each piece stands for one unicorn sticker! Get enough pieces to make the dividend. Then put them into the same number of equal groups as the divisor. You can also use the same number as the pieces of paper! Click Show me to see how you did!
There are 6 pieces of paper. The divisor is 6. Put the pieces of cereal into 6 equal groups!
Solve and Label Your Answer
Ava has 30 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them in equal groups on 6 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
30 \({ \div }\) 6 = ___
Now we can solve the question and find the quotient. The quotient will be the number of cereal pieces in each group. Click Show Me to see!
30 \({ \div }\) 6 = 5
There are 5 pieces of cereal in each group.
The answer needs to have a label. The number and words will answer the question in the problem!
Question:
How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
5 unicorn stickers
Try to solve the next problem on your own.
Read and Solve
Use your pieces of cereal to solve the problem.
Ava has 32 unicorn stickers. She wants to put them into equal groups on 8 pieces of paper. How many unicorn stickers are on each piece of paper?
32 \({ \div }\) 8 = ___
Each rectangle gets 4 pieces of cereal. Ava has 4 stickers on each piece of paper!
Each rectangle gets 4 pieces of cereal. Ava has 4 stickers on each piece of paper!
Each rectangle gets 4 pieces of cereal. Ava has 4 stickers on each piece of paper!
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