All SSAT Elementary Level Math Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #141 : Common Core Math: Grade 3
Solve the following:
When we are dividing, we are splitting things up into groups. For this problem, we can think of this as we have items and we want to split them up equally into groups. We are solving for the number of items in each group.
We can draw circles and start putting the items, in this case triangles, into each circle equally.
Our answer is the number of items in group. In this case, there are triangles in each of the groups so our answer is .
Example Question #3601 : Operations
Melissa is making holiday cookies. She made cookies and she's going to put them into small containers to give out to her friends. Each container holds cookies. How many containers can she fill completely?
When we have a set of something that we are splitting up into groups, we divide. In this case, we are splitting up cookies into containers. We have cookies that we are dividing into containers. Each container holds cookies, so we divide by to find out how many containers we can fill. We will let represent the number of containers that we can fill.
We drop the remainder of because the question asks how many containers we can fill completely.
Example Question #551 : How To Divide
Use the computation shown to find the products:
The computation shows that with a remainder of .
So it must be that:
Simplify.
The correct answer is
Example Question #5 : Determine The Unknown Number In A Multiplication Or Division Equation: Ccss.Math.Content.3.Oa.A.4
Fill in the blank.
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The opposite of multiplication is division. In order to find the missing piece of this multiplication problem we can divide.
So:
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