Division with Remainders: Practice Rows

Ten division facts sit in ten cards on this 3rd grade practice page, two across and five down, with no pictures at all: 28 ÷ 5, 9 ÷ 2, 25 ÷ 3, 39 ÷ 4, 22 ÷ 3, 19 ÷ 2, 11 ÷ 2, 37 ÷ 5, 29 ÷ 3, 53 ÷ 5. After each equals sign wait two dashed boxes, the second marked R. The child writes the quotient in the first and the remainder in the second. Every row on the page leaves something over — no division comes out exactly — and the divisors are the 2, 3, 4 and 5 tables, with the quotient never above 10.

Fluency is the whole job here. The child needs to find the largest multiple of the divisor that fits — the 5 in 28 ÷ 5 is 25 — and then count what is left, and to do it ten times without a picture to lean on. Because every row has a remainder, a child cannot fall back on the times-table answer; 25 ÷ 3 is not 8, it is 8 R 1. The page mixes the divisors so the child changes table row by row, and no divisor appears more than three times, so the fives cannot be done as a block.

It prints on one sheet with room for working beside each card. This is the notation-only face of the division-with-remainders family and the one to use after the ring-the-groups and share-it-out pages have made the remainder concrete. The exact-or-not page is the next step — it mixes in divisions that do come out exactly and asks the child to tell which.