Bring your 3rd grade division lessons to life with ready-to-use instructional slides designed to accompany Magic of Math Unit 4: Division. These slides guide students through 20 days of instruction, progressing from a conceptual understanding of division to strategies, fact fluency, and one- and multi-step word problems.

Each lesson is presented in a clear, student-friendly format that supports whole-group instruction, classroom discussion, visual modeling, and guided practice.

Week 1: Introduction to Division

Students build a conceptual understanding of division through:

• Equal groups and equal sharing
• Division models
• Repeated subtraction
• Arrays
• Division equations

Week 2: Division Strategies

Students learn and apply strategies for solving division problems, including:

• Related multiplication and division facts
• Rules for dividing by 1 and working with 0
• Even and odd numbers
• Dividing by 2
• Using known facts to solve unfamiliar problems

Week 3: Division Facts & Fluency

Students build accuracy and efficiency through:

• Division fact practice
• Fact fluency activities
• Strategy application
• Guided review and practice

Week 4: Division Word Problems

Students apply their division skills to:

• One-step division word problems
• Multi-step word problems
• Modeling division situations
• Writing equations
• Choosing appropriate strategies
• Finding and explaining solutions

What’s Included

• 20 days of instructional slides
• Teacher-guided mini-lessons
• Visual models and examples
• Student discussion prompts
• Guided practice
• Daily word problems
• Division strategy instruction
• Skill review and practice

These slides follow the same four-week sequence as the printable unit, making it easy to introduce skills, model strategies, and guide students through each lesson.

Please Note: These instructional slides are designed to accompany the printable 3rd Grade Magic of Math Unit 4: Division resource. Printable activities, games, notebook pages, and independent practice materials are available in the corresponding unit and are not included with the slides unless otherwise stated.