Question Video: Interpreting Division of Whole Numbers by Counting and Grouping Mathematics • Third Year of Primary School

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A fisherman has 10 fish. If he distributes them equally among two bowls, how many fish will be in each bowl?

To help solve this problem, let’s find the key words and numbers first. So he has 10 fish and two bowls. And the fisherman has to distribute them equally. So the fisherman has 10 fish and two bowls and he has to share that fish equally between the two bowls.

We can draw a model to help us picture this problem. So we have two bowls and he has 10 fish. So let’s share them equally among the bowls: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10.

How many fish are there in each bowl? There are five. The fisherman had 10 fish. We share them equally among two bowls. So there will be five fish in each bowl.