Draw a Tape Diagram to Divide

Read the total above the bar with your child, then count the parts. Ask how many go in each part so they add up to the total. Check with the answer key.

Draw a tape diagram (strip model) for each division equation, label the parts and solve. A tape diagram is a bar split into equal parts. Each part is one group, and the whole bar is the total. The directions on the page read: Split each bar into equal parts to match the equation. Then, write the number in each part. Then, write the quotient. The answer key shows every answer.

Yes, both. We made it for 3rd Grade division, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with division tape diagrams. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

The whole bar is the total, or dividend. It is cut into equal parts, and the number of parts is the divisor. The amount in one part is the quotient.

The same bar shows both facts. A bar of 24 cut into 4 parts of 6 shows 24 divided by 4 is 6 and 4 times 6 is 24.

Draw one long bar, split it into as many equal parts as the divisor, write the total above it and work out what goes in each part.

Yes. All five sheets have an answer key.

Third graders learn that division means splitting into equal groups or finding how many groups. Per CCSS 3.OA.A.2, they should interpret whole-number quotients and solve division word problems within 100. They should understand division as the inverse of multiplication.

Start with sharing equally: give 12 items to 3 people, how many does each get? Use concrete objects, then pictures, then equations. Worksheets with visual division (circling equal groups) bridge the concrete-to-abstract gap effectively.