Division shows up as two different questions — sharing a pile equally among friends, and grouping a pile into equal batches. These free printable worksheets tell both kinds of story so a child hears division in each.
If they get stuck
Ready for harder? A number from its remainders — several divisions at once, and only their leftovers are given.
The answer key prints on a separate page.
Sharing problems hand out a total equally and ask how many each person gets; grouping problems pack a total into equal-sized batches and ask how many batches there are. They are the same operation from opposite ends, and a child who meets both stops thinking division is only "splitting between people." Every total divides evenly, so answers are whole numbers a child can check by multiplying back.
The numbers come from the same tables the child is practicing in multiplication, which is the point — division facts are multiplication facts read backwards, and seeing 24 shared among 3 as the partner of 3 × 8 is what makes both stick.
One question from a sheet like this one, worked a step at a time — with a sentence saying what just happened and why.
Division word problems, step by step