Pre-Assessment (Before Lesson)

Purpose: Identify prior knowledge of equal groups, repeated addition, arrays, and division as sharing.

Format: Quick 6-question pretest

  1. Draw an array to show 3 groups of 4.

  2. What repeated addition matches 5 × 2?

  3. If you have 12 apples and 3 friends, how many does each friend get?

  4. Fill in the blank: 6 × __ = 18

  5. Circle the number sentence that represents 4 groups of 3.

  6. Explain in one sentence what division means.

Materials: Paper, pencil
Use: Group students (intervention, on-level, enrichment).