🌟 Does your rising 4th grader still count on their fingers for 7 × 8? Freeze when they see a division sign? Skip the second step in a two-step word problem? 🌟

This packet builds the multiplication and division foundation 4th grade depends on. Without rock-solid 3.OA skills, students struggle in 4th grade the moment multi-digit multiplication and long division appear. Fix the gaps now — not in October.

Every task follows the same structure: read the worked example, then practice independently. No reteaching required.

✏️ WHAT'S INSIDE (22 pages)

- 1-page Reference Sheet — vocabulary (factor, product, dividend, divisor, quotient, array), properties, fact-family rules, and common mistakes to avoid

- 5 Worked Example pages — full-color step-by-step models with visual arrays, equal-group diagrams, skip-counting strategies, and a READ → PLAN → SOLVE → CHECK walkthrough for two-step word problems

- 10 Worksheets (2 per task) — 8 problems each, 40 practice problems total, large work boxes sized for 3rd grade handwriting

- 1-page Mini-Assessment — 8 fresh mixed problems including an error-analysis question

- 1-page Answer Key — every problem answered

📚 SKILLS COVERED

Task 1 — Multiplication as Equal Groups & Arrays

Building groups of equal size, reading arrays, writing multiplication equations from pictures and word problems (3.OA.A.1)

Task 2 — Division as Equal Sharing & Equal Groups

Splitting into equal parts, division as the inverse of multiplication, using a multiplication fact to solve a division fact (3.OA.A.2, 3.OA.B.6)

Task 3 — Multiplication & Division Facts to 100

Building fluency with the facts using skip-counting, doubling, and inverse strategies (3.OA.C.7)

Task 4 — Fact Families & Missing Numbers

Solving missing-number equations, writing the four equations of a fact family, applying inverse operations (3.OA.A.4, 3.OA.B.5)

Task 5 — Multiplication & Division Word Problems

One-step and two-step word problems using all four operations and the READ → PLAN → SOLVE → CHECK workflow (3.OA.A.3, 3.OA.D.8)

💡 WHY TEACHERS LOVE IT

✓ Worked examples use both equal-groups AND array models — students see BOTH meanings of multiplication

✓ The division example shows "what times 4 equals 24?" — the strategy that builds fluency

✓ Two-step word problem walkthrough teaches the READ → PLAN → SOLVE → CHECK habit

✓ Worksheets print in pure black and white — no color ink needed

✓ Work boxes are sized for younger writers — real space to think and show work

✓ 5 tasks at one per day = done in one week

🏫 PERFECT FOR

- Summer review sent home with families before 4th grade

- Back-to-school diagnostic review — first week of school

- Tutoring and intervention (RTI/MTSS)

- Homeschool families bridging 3rd to 4th grade

- Substitute plans — zero prep, self-explanatory

- Morning work, independent practice, or center work

🎁 BUNDLE & SAVE

This is Packet 3 of the Rising 4th Grade Mini-Packet series. Look for:

- Place Value & Number Sense

- Addition & Subtraction Fluency

- Multiplication & Division Foundations ← this one

- Fractions Intro (coming soon)

- Measurement & Data (coming soon)

- Geometry (coming soon)

👀 PREVIEW

Click "Preview" to see the reference sheet, a worked example with the equal-groups and array models, and a sample worksheet. What you see is exactly what your students get.

❓ Questions?

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