Sharing Halloween Candy: Cyberchase

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

3

Overview

In this video segment from Cyberchase, Buzz, Delete, and Harold are trying to share 18 pieces of candy equally among themselves. Jackie helps them by demonstrating how to divide the candies equally by distributing the candies in rounds.

Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 3

MA19.3.2

Illustrate and interpret the quotient of two whole numbers as the number of objects in each group or the number of groups when the whole is partitioned into equal shares.

UP:MA19.3.2

Vocabulary

  • Partitive division
  • Measurement division
  • Missing factor
  • Factor
  • Quotient
  • Partition
  • Product
  • Divisor
  • Dividend
  • Equal share

Knowledge

Students know:
  • that division is related to multiplication in terms of finding a missing factor. The missing factor being either the number of groups or the number of items in each group.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Interpret quantities in a division situation as the number of objects in each groupor the number of equal groups.
  • Use a model or drawing to illustrate a quotient.
  • Write word problems for division context involving equal groups and fair shares.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • a division expression represents either the number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups or the number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.
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