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Missing number division, step by step

These free printable worksheets blank out one number in a division fact.

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The question

32 ÷ ? = 4

32÷?=4
32÷?=4
32÷4=8
32÷8=4
  1. The gap is not at the end this time — the ANSWER is already there. What is missing is one of the two numbers going in, so the sum cannot just be worked left to right.
  2. 32 shared out gave 4 each time, so the number of groups is the other half of that same fact: 32 ÷ 4.
  3. Put it back in to be sure: 32 ÷ 8 = 4. It holds, so the missing number is 8.

How it works.

  1. 01

    The gap is not at the end this time — the ANSWER is already there. What is missing is one of the two numbers going in, so the sum cannot just be worked left to right.

  2. 02

    32 shared out gave 4 each time, so the number of groups is the other half of that same fact: 32 ÷ 4.

  3. 03

    Put it back in to be sure: 32 ÷ 8 = 4. It holds, so the missing number is 8.

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