Unit 4, Lesson 3
Interpreting Division Situations (Optional)
Grade 6
Preparation
Lesson Narrative
This lesson is optional. It offers students further practice in interpreting descriptions of situations involving equal-size groups. To make sense of the relationship between known and unknown quantities, students create their own diagrams or interpret given diagrams and write multiplication and division equations.
As students create representations for division situations and interpret the meaning of their answers in context, they practice reasoning abstractly and quantitatively (MP2).
- Create an equation and a diagram to represent a multiplication or division situation, and coordinate these representations (orally).
- Explain (using words and other representations) how to find the unknown quantity in a multiplication or division situation.
- Interpret a verbal description of a situation involving equal-size groups (in spoken or written language), and identify which quantity is unknown—the number of groups, the amount in one group, or the total amount.
Let’s explore situations that involve division.
Required Preparation
None