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3 Module 4

Core Focus Ideas for Home

Division: Introducing the symbol and connecting multiplication and division, and Practice division facts. E.g.
the tens, ves, twos, and fours facts What is 28 4? Instead
Common fractions: Reviewing unit fractions, symbols, and relating models of stopping at 7, ask your
child to explain the halving
strategy: I know half of 28
Division is 14 and half of 14 is 7,
Multiplication and division receive signicant attention in third grade. It is very so 28 4 = 7.
important for students to understand how these operations are closely related.
Practice the twos and
Fair shares are a familiar concept well before working with division symbols. For fours doubling facts. E.g.
example, 20 marbles shared fairly among 4 children means each child gets the What is 4 7? Instead of
same number (5). The division equation 20 4 = 5 represents the fair share. The stopping at 28, ask your
related multiplication equation is 4 5 = 20. child to explain the doubling
strategy: I know that double
Division: Connecting multiplication and division
4.2
7 is 14 and double 14 is 28,
How could you describe this picture
so 4 7 is 28.
Step In of apples?

What multiplication facts could you write?

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Imagine the apples are packed into bags of 4.
How many bags could you ll?
Partially covered arrays
What division fact could you write?
You can write 2 multiplication show the total and either
facts and 2 division facts for
= any array picture. the number of groups or
These 4 facts are called
Imagine the apples are packed equally into 5 bags.
How many apples will be in each bag?
a fact family because they
are related.
the number in each group
What division fact could you write?
to represent division using
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images already familiar to
In this lesson, students connect multiplication and division. students from their study of
Step Up 1. Write the fact family for each array.
multiplication.
a. b. c. d.
Because multiplication and division are so closely related, students use arrays a.
to visualize multiplication facts when they think about division. This strategy is 60 dots
in total
emphasized for tens and
ves
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facts.
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4.6 Division: Introducing the twos and fours facts 6 = 60 60 6 =
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b.
16 blocks are shared equally between two friends.
Step
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80 dots
in total

Dividing by 2 is the same

as halving. Half of 16 is 8. 8 = 80 80 8 =
Imagine the same bag of blocks is equally shared among four friends.
How could you gure out the number of blocks in each share?

Caleb used a halving strategy. Mary thought of the related

2 2 multiplication fact.

In this lesson, students work with twos and fours division

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facts by using halving 16
and related multiplication
4 = 16 strategies.
2 2

In Module 3, studentsHowfocused
many blocks areon doubling
in each share? Write thefor twos
missing number.multiplication facts and doubling

doubling for fours multiplication facts. Now students think about the twos and fours
Which strategy do you prefer? Why?
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How could you use each strategy to share 24 blocks equally among four friends?
division facts as halving and halving-halving.
1. Complete the equations to show the number of blocks
Step Up in each share. Use cubes to help your thinking.

a. b.

20 2 = 12 2 =

20 blocks 12 blocks
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20 4 = 12 4 =
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3 Module 4

Fractions
Ideas for Home
Fractions are often challenging for students, but they are very important in daily
Notice fractions in
life and they provide essential understanding for later work with decimals, algebra,
kitchen measures, e.g.
and other advanced mathematics. 1
compare 2 cup of our to a
In Grades 1 and 2, students explored their understanding of one-half, one-third, whole cup, 41 tablespoon to
and one-fourth in sets of objects and in geometric shapes. This section of the
1 tablespoon, etc.
module begins by reviewing fractions using the area model.
Look at an analog clock
4.8 Common fractions: Reviewing unit fractions together and notice the
half (30 minutes), quarter
These are three dierent ways to fold a square into 4 parts of equal
Step In size. What do you notice? (15 minutes), and third
(20 minutes) on the
clock face.
Color one part of each large square. What fraction of each square did you color?
All the large squares are the same size and shape
but they are split up in dierent ways. Each large square
How could you check that the shaded fraction
of each square covers the same amount of paper?
is called one whole. Glossary

1. Each large square is one whole. Color one part of each.

The area model of fractions
In Up
Step this lesson, students review unit fractions.
Then write how much is shaded and how many parts in total.

a. b. c.
shows fractions as parts of a
As in Grades 1 and 2, the area model continues to represent fractions two-dimensional area or
by showing the relationship between the shaded area and the total area. three-dimensional object.

In Grade 3, fraction modelspartextend

of part of
to number part of
lines and are described using
numeric symbols. Numberequal parts
lines equal parts
show the equal parts
relative position of fractions.
d. e. f.

4.9 Common fractions: Writing with symbols

The number line model
is a more sophisticated
Step In
part of is covering a rectangle
Layla
orange pattern blocks.
partwith
of part of
length model. Number lines
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equal parts equal parts

What fraction of the rectangle has she covered so far?
equal parts
specically require that
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Write a numeral to show the number of parts parts covered
that are covered and a numeral to show
the number of equal parts in the whole. equal parts as numbers.
The numeral on the top is called the numerator. 1 1 1
+4 +4 +4
The numeral on the bottom is called the denominator.
Together the two numerals make a common fraction.

In this picture, the numerator tells how many 1 2 3

0 4 4 4 1
blocks have been used. The denominator tells how
many blocks will cover the rectangle. Together
they show that 38 of the rectangle is covered.

In Up
Step this lesson, students
1. These fraction cards arewrite
Complete the cards to match.
common
fractions
sorted into rows.

using numbers. Three shaded parts out of eight

3
equal parts is written 8 . three-fourths
three-fourths

5
8

two-fifths
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