Worksheet Grade 3 Health & Consumer Science

Water Bottles for the Junco Soccer Team: Equal Groups

A grade 3 worksheet where students use equal-groups multiplication to count the water bottles a fictional soccer team packs, fills, and drinks on game day.

Grade: Grade 3
Subject: Health & Consumer Science
Material: Worksheet
Time: 30 min
Prep: No prep
Materials: None

Standards

3.OA.A.1 Common Core Math

Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 x 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 x 7.

How this material aligns: Items 1, 2, and 8 have students interpret and write products as equal groups of water bottles, such as 4 bags of 6 bottles, which is the interpretation this standard requires.

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3.OA.D.8 Common Core Math

Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

How this material aligns: Items 7 and 9 are two-step word problems that combine multiplication with subtraction to find how many full bottles remain after the team drinks.

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Objectives

Students will interpret a multiplication fact as equal groups of water bottles.
Students will solve one-step and two-step word problems about a team's water supply.

Vocabulary

Key words: equal groups, product, multiplication sentence

Teacher overview

The fictional Junco soccer team packs water for every Saturday game, and most items in this worksheet follow one game day, from packing the bottle bags to the final whistle. Drinking water during exercise supplies the health content, while equal-groups multiplication supplies the mathematics. Every item uses the same team, so students can picture the bags, the snack table, and the sideline as a single scene while they work.

Water Bottles for the Junco Soccer Team: Equal Groups — Grade 3 Health & Consumer Science

Name: ____________________________ Date: ______________

Student Worksheet

The Junco soccer team plays every Saturday. Imagine you are the team helper. You pack the water and count the bottles. Answer each question. Show your thinking.

Each mesh bag holds 6 water bottles. You fill 4 bags. How many bottles is that in all?
Look at question 1. What does 4 x 6 mean in that story? Write one sentence about the bags and the bottles.
There are 9 players on the team. Each player drinks 2 bottles at practice. How many bottles does the team drink?
The snack table has 3 rows of cups. Each row has 5 cups. How many cups are on the table?
Bottles come in packs of 7. Coach Lena brings 3 packs. How many bottles does she bring?
The team plays 5 games this month. The helper brings 10 bottles to each game. How many bottles is that for all the games?
You fill 4 bags with 6 bottles in each bag. The players drink 20 bottles. How many full bottles are left?
Six players each carry 3 bottles to the field. Write a multiplication sentence that shows how many bottles they carry in all.
Coach Lena brings 2 packs of 7 bottles. The team drinks 9 bottles. How many bottles are left?
Jo says 3 x 5 cups and 5 x 3 cups make the same number. Is Jo right? Explain how you know.

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Answer Key

Answer: 24 bottles. Four bags with 6 bottles each is 4 x 6 = 24 bottles.
Answer: 4 x 6 means 4 equal groups with 6 in each group. A correct sentence names 4 bags with 6 bottles in each bag, making 24 bottles in all.
Answer: 18 bottles. Nine players with 2 bottles each is 9 x 2 = 18 bottles.
Answer: 15 cups. Three rows with 5 cups each is 3 x 5 = 15 cups.
Answer: 21 bottles. Three packs with 7 bottles each is 3 x 7 = 21 bottles.
Answer: 50 bottles. Five games with 10 bottles each is 5 x 10 = 50 bottles.
Answer: 4 bottles. First find the total: 4 x 6 = 24 bottles. Then subtract what was drunk: 24 - 20 = 4 full bottles left.
Answer: 6 x 3 = 18. Six players with 3 bottles each carry 18 bottles in all. Accept 3 x 6 = 18 with a matching explanation.
Answer: 5 bottles. First find the total: 2 x 7 = 14 bottles. Then subtract: 14 - 9 = 5 bottles left.
Answer: Yes, Jo is right. Both products equal 15. Three rows of 5 and five rows of 3 arrange the same 15 cups in different directions, so the order of the factors does not change the product.

Differentiation

Support

Let students draw circles for groups and dots for bottles before writing each equation, and provide a multiplication chart for facts they have not yet memorized. Assign items 1, 3, 4, and 8 first, since each is a single equal-groups step.

Extension

Ask students to write a new two-step problem about the Junco team that uses one multiplication and one subtraction, then solve it and trade with a partner. The partner must check the answer with a drawing.

ELL supports

Pre-teach "pack," "row," and "bag" with quick sketches next to each word, since all three name a group in this worksheet. Provide the sentence frame "___ groups of ___ make ___" for items 2 and 8, and allow item 10 to be explained aloud before it is written.

Extensions

Have students count how many water bottles their own class would need for a field trip if each student carried 2, then write the multiplication sentence and compare it with a partner's. Tie the discussion back to item 7, where the Junco helper packed more bottles than the players drank.