Year 2 Introduction to division structures worksheet

“Equal groups for counters” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 maths unit “Introduction to division structures”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 19 to 20 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Equal groups for counters

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · Maths · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can split objects into equal groups and say how many groups and how many in each.

A Look back3 min

1.
Count on in 2s: 2, 4, 6,
2.
5 + 5 =
3.
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 =

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ola has 6 buttons. She sorts them into 2 equal pots.

Watch me

6 buttons go into 2 pots.

Each pot has 3 buttons, so the pots are equal.

6 is equal to 2 groups of 3.

Now you

1.
Ola puts 12 pencils into 3 equal pots. How many pencils in each pot?

C Your turn6 min

Share each set of counters into equal groups. Then answer the question in each row.

1.
8 counters are shared into 2 equal groups. How many in each group?
2.
8 counters are shared into 4 equal groups. How many in each group?
3.
12 counters are shared into 4 equal groups. How many in each group?
4.
12 counters are in equal groups of 3. How many groups are there?

Say it out loud: Which number changed from one question to the next, and which number stayed the same?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Mia says: “12 is equal to 3 groups of 4, so there are 4 groups.”

1.
How many groups are there really?

E Think deeper3 min

1.
Here are 12 counters. List every number of equal groups you could make from them.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Equal groups for counters · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. 8

2. 10

3. 8

B

1. 4 If your child writes 3, that is the number of pots. Share the 12 pencils into 3 pots one at a time, then count one pot.

C

1. 4

2. 2 If your child writes 4, they have done 8 ÷ 2. That is the answer for 2 groups, not 4 groups. Count the groups in the bar first, then share.

3. 3

4. 4 If your child writes 3, that is the number in each group. Count in 3s along the line to 12, then count the jumps.

D

1. 3 If your child writes 4, they have worked out how many are in each group, 12 ÷ 3 = 4. The first number in 3 groups of 4 tells you how many groups there are.

E

1. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12 If your child leaves out 1 or 12, ask: can one group hold all 12? Can 12 groups each hold 1?

Words to use

Say“Which number tells you how many groups, and which tells you how many in each?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer.”

After the sheet

Put 12 buttons or raisins on a plate and share them into 3 equal piles, then into 4 piles. Each time, say: 12 is equal to ___ groups of ___.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Equal groups or left over?(with a plan)
Division stories(with a plan)
How many groups?(with a plan)
Cutting with skip counting(with a plan)
Skip count the groups(with a plan)
Sharing things equally(with a plan)
Sharing by skip counting(with a plan)
Count the share size(with a plan)
Sharing and grouping(with a plan)

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