Rideshares and icy treats - let's use division to solve them all! On page 1, Llola the Llama was ready to send her friends home after a fantastic pool party. Some took taxis, some rode tandem bicycles, and the rest walked home. Read the questions and use bar models to solve the problems. Then, on pages 2 and 3, monsters were on the loose! Use bar models to figure out how many treats each one ate.

In third grade, students are expected to know how to use a bar model to represent multiplication and division problems. This involves understanding multiplication as a way to find the total number of items in a given number of groups, and division as a way to find the number of items in each group or the number of groups.

For multiplication, for example, if a problem was given as "3 groups of 4," the student would draw a bar split into three equal sections, with each representing "4." For division, if there's a problem like "12 divided by 4," the student would draw a bar representing the total of "12" and then divide it into four equal parts. Thus, students learn that bar models can make abstract math problems more understandable and visual.