This task is from Tools 4 NC Teachers. It is intended to be used in Clusters 1 or 4 of Grade 3. 

Part One:

Cheese crackers come in packs of 4 or 6. If you need to feed 12 people with one size or the other (1 cracker per person), what are the ways that you can buy them?  Use your manipulatives to model the problem and find solutions.  Draw pictures of the various packs of crackers and then write an equation for each solution.

Part Two:

What if you wanted to give them 2 crackers each? Draw the packs of crackers and write an equation for each solution you can find.

Part Three:

What if you wanted to give them 3 crackers each? Draw the packs of crackers and write an equation for each solution you can find. Write a sentence explaining how you solved this task.