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Division Story Problems:


               Learning objective: Students will be able to solve story problems involving
               division.

                 The keywords or hints to identify whether it is division story problems

                   are: Quotient of, divided by, grouped equally into, shared equally

                   among, separated into, split among, etc.


               Rules to solve story problems:


                 Read the question given properly. Read information sentence and
                   question sentence carefully.

                 Then decide the operation (+/ - / × / ÷). Whether you will do addition or
                   subtraction or multiplication or division.

                 Frame and write statements from the information given in the story.


                 Solve the sum column wise.

                 Write the conclusion in full sentences.




               Example: 12 candies were divided among 3 children. How many candies
               did each child get?
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