Solve multiplication and division problems
Solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and multiplication and division facts
What you'll learn
- 1
In a word problem, decide first: are you putting equal groups together, or sharing them out?
- 2
"5 buses with 10 children each" puts groups together: 5 × 10 = 50. "50 children into 5 buses" shares out: 50 ÷ 5 = 10.
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4 bags with 5 apples in each. How many apples?
- 4
Multiplying and dividing undo each other. If 4 × 5 = 20, then 20 ÷ 5 = 4 and 20 ÷ 4 = 5.
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30 sweets into bags of 10. Are we sharing? Yes. 30 ÷ 10 = 3 bags. Check: 3 × 10 = 30. ✓
- 6
18 pencils shared equally between 2 pots. How many in each pot?
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How do you check that 40 ÷ 5 = 8 is right?
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