Sunshine State Standard

MA.A.3.1.1

Materials

counters, paper, crayons, copy of The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins

What to do

1. Read the story with the students discussing what is happening in the with cookies. Tell students that what the children in the story are actually doing is division. 2. Next time the story is read manipulate the counters on an overhead as the cookies in the story are divided. Students are also manipulating their own counters. 3. The third time the story is read do the same thing adding the division problem for each situation. Students are then to make their own books showing the different division problems illustrated throughout the book. Students are asked to draw the cookies on each plate, write the division problem and write what is actually happening in the story. For example: Sam and Victoria are sharing 12 cookies. They each get 6 cookies. 12/2-6.

Additional Information

The same activity can be done when using fractions. What fraction of the set of the cookies do the children each get? is the question to be asked. Students may also make their own books showing the fractions.

Submitted by

Josefa Alfonso

Miami-Dade County
Miami, Florida