MORE Division

Here are two posters that explains the process of division.  The students are free to choose which ever method they feel comfortable with.  We only encourage that they stick to one particular method.

Tower of Power

Okay, here is it.  Division the "funny way".  The theory behind this method is that division is connected to multiplication and repeated subtraction.  With this method, it doesn't matter which facts you remember, you will eventually get to the end.  This is very helpful to students that do not know their facts.  The goal is to take big chunks away from the dividend (the number under the house).  Your final quotient is found by adding up all of your factors and including the remainder.  Check by multiplying!

Division

Sorry for the brief delay in division information.  The district has been updating the system and I was blocked from my blog site.  Above you will see how we relate multiplication to division.  They are opposite operations.  Division cannot be solved apart from multiplication.  Dividing is simply putting total amounts into groups equally, you may or may not have any left over.  In my previous post was showing the connection between the two operations.

Division

We connected the model with manipulatives to the algorithm.  The steps are Divide, Multiply, Subtract, and then Bring down.  If there are no more numbers to bring down, that is your remainder.  The remainder can never be larger than the number you are dividing by.