Relate division to multiplication word problems

The topic  is a topic under the 3rd Grade Math Mission. This exercise connects the idea of division as an inverse operation to multiplication.

Types of Problems
There is one type of problem in this exercise:


 * 1) Select the equations that work: This problem provides a word problem and equations that may model the situation. In particular there are two possible multiplications statements, and separately two possible division statements. The student is asked to select the two statements that are correct models of the solution to the word problem.Rdtmwp1.png

Strategies
Experience with multiplication, division and translating word problems into mathematics are all that is needed for success on this problem.
 * 1) One of the top two equations will be selected, and separately one of the bottom two equations will be selected.
 * 2) The "answers" are integers at this time, so that can help to quickly determine the equations that should be selected.