Division facts are multiplication facts read backwards: 56 ÷ 7 = 8 because 7 × 8 = 56. Each page here starts from the matching times table, lists the twelve facts that divide evenly (from 7 ÷ 7 = 1 to 84 ÷ 7 = 12 on the ÷ 7 page), and has a timed drill and a printable sheet with an answer key.
Common Core puts division facts in 3rd grade next to multiplication, in the same standard (3.OA.C.7): children are expected to multiply and divide within 100 fluently, using the link between the two.
Learn each division table after its times table, not before. A child who knows 6 × 8 = 48 can find 48 ÷ 6 by asking “six times what makes 48?”, and the division fact soon comes on its own.
A sensible order follows the times tables: ÷ 2, ÷ 5 and ÷ 10 first, then ÷ 4 and ÷ 8 by halving, then ÷ 3, ÷ 9 and ÷ 6, with ÷ 7, ÷ 11 and ÷ 12 last.
Fact families halve the work again. 3 × 8 = 24, 8 × 3 = 24, 24 ÷ 3 = 8 and 24 ÷ 8 = 3 belong together, so each division fact your child learns brings a second one with it.
Timed drill: mixed division facts
12 facts in a random order. A right answer within 3 seconds counts as by heart. Free, no sign-up, and nothing is saved: it all happens on this screen.
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Sharing, grouping and remainders
Division means two things, and both turn up in word problems. Sharing: 24 crackers shared by 3 children, how many each? Grouping: how many bags of 3 can you make from 24? The answer is the same, but telling stories of both kinds helps your child recognise division when it is not written as a sum.
Remainders are not on these pages: every fact here divides evenly. Division with remainders is a 4th grade topic, and it is much easier once these facts are secure.
Two zero rules come up in 3rd grade and are easy to mix up, so say them together: 0 divided by any other number is 0, and dividing by 0 is not allowed at all.
Watch the order. In multiplication, 4 × 6 and 6 × 4 are the same fact, but in division 24 ÷ 6 and 6 ÷ 24 are very different questions. Reading each fact aloud as “24 shared into 6 groups” helps a child keep the big number first.
Missing-number problems are division in disguise. A sheet that asks 7 × ? = 42 is asking 42 ÷ 7, and children who see that link early find both kinds of question easier. The missing factor skill page has a free practice of exactly this.
When a division fact is slow, go back to its times table rather than drilling the division on its own. Each table page below links to its twin, so the matching multiplication is always one tap away.