give peer response and feedback to, There are many different methods used to help students understand multiplication and division. Equal-group problems are just as they sound, it is a multiplication or division problem where each group contains the same amount of items. This concept can help students make sense of multiplication and division in the real world. Multiplication: There are 5 rows of chairs. Each row has 8 chairs. How many chairs are in total? (8 x 5 = 40, 40/5= 8) Division: 24 pencils are divided equally among 6 students. How many pencils does each student get? (24/6 = 4 4x6=24) Comparison problems are when there is two quantities and we want to compare them by finding the difference or relationship between them. Multiplication: Matt has 3 times as many books as Jaime. Jaime has 4 books. How many books does Matt have? (3x4 = 12 books 12/3=4) Division: Diane has 30 flowers. That is 2 times as many as Ben has. How many flowers does Diane have? (30/2=15 flowers 15x2=30)