Use Multiplication to Divide (6, 7)
Solve division facts for 6 and 7 using multiplication.
3rd Grade - Math - Use Multiplication to Divide
About This Skill
What's 42 ÷ 7? Grade 3 students practice flipping the question: 'What times 7 equals 42?' By reframing division as a search for a missing factor, they use multiplication facts they already know to solve tougher problems. With instant feedback on every answer, students build fluency with fact families and gain real confidence in division.
Skills & Topics
- Algebra and Equations
- Problem Solving and Logic
- Number Sense and Operations
- Word Problems
- Expressions & Equations
- Properties of Operations
- Multiplication
- Division
- Fact Family
- Operations
- Factors
- Product
- Dividend Divisor Quotient
- Equation
- Inverse Operation
- Unknown
Curriculum Alignment
- AC9M3N04: multiply and divide one- and two-digit numbers, representing problems using number sentences, diagrams and arrays, and using a variety of calculation strategies
- ENG-MATH-Y3-MD.3: Solve problems, including missing number problems, involving multiplication and division, including positive integer scaling problems and correspondence problems in which n objects are connected to m objects.
- NY-3.OA.6
- 3.OA.B.6: Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, find 32 ÷ 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when multiplied by 8.
- 3.OA.B.6
- MA.3.AR.2.1
- MATH.3.4.J
- G3.B2.1
- BC.MATH.G3.CONTENT.05
- SG.MATH.P3.NA.WN.3.2
- AB.MATH.G3.MAT3-OI1-GQ3-LO1