Word problems: one-step division

Difficulty Stretch · Set juaqbr

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1
66 pencils are shared equally between 6 boxes. How many go in each box?
2
12 pencils are shared equally between 4 boxes. How many go in each box?
3
25 pencils are shared equally between 5 boxes. How many go in each box?
4
28 pencils are shared equally between 7 boxes. How many go in each box?
5
60 pencils are shared equally between 6 boxes. How many go in each box?
6
8 pencils are shared equally between 2 boxes. How many go in each box?
7
90 pencils are shared equally between 9 boxes. How many go in each box?
8
56 pencils are shared equally between 8 boxes. How many go in each box?
9
14 pencils are shared equally between 2 boxes. How many go in each box?
10
80 pencils are shared equally between 8 boxes. How many go in each box?
11
8 pencils are shared equally between 2 boxes. How many go in each box?
12
24 pencils are shared equally between 4 boxes. How many go in each box?
13
32 pencils are shared equally between 4 boxes. How many go in each box?
14
42 pencils are shared equally between 6 boxes. How many go in each box?
15
24 pencils are shared equally between 2 boxes. How many go in each box?
16
45 pencils are shared equally between 9 boxes. How many go in each box?
17
48 pencils are shared equally between 4 boxes. How many go in each box?
18
28 pencils are shared equally between 4 boxes. How many go in each box?
19
36 pencils are shared equally between 6 boxes. How many go in each box?
20
45 pencils are shared equally between 9 boxes. How many go in each box?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 2 to 108.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the numbers were multiplied; sharing equally divides the total between the boxes.
Answers are a whole number.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 83 different ones, 35% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 3 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.