Division

1) What is Division ?
The process of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.
Divide is the same as: share, split into equal amounts, partition or fractions.
The opposite (or inverse) of division is multiplication.
The answer in a division calculation is the Quotient.

2) If 29 was divided by 7 what would the remainder be ?
(4 * 7) = 28 and (29 - 28) = 1

3) How can you quickly tell if a number is divisible by 3 ?
If a number is divisible by 3, then 3 is a factor.
Any number where the digits added together, is in the 3 times table.

4) Divide 136 equally into 4 equal groups ?
34

5) What number, when divided by 9 gives an answer of 6 ?
(9 x 6) = 54

6) How many times can I take 9 from 54 ?
6

7) What is 200 divided into groups of 25 ?
8

8) What is 6 divided by 0.4 ?
multiply both sides by 10
60 divided by 4 = 15
when it is division you can multiply both sides and the number stays exactly the same.

9) What is 7.2 divided by 8 ?
only multiply the decimal by 10
72 divided by 8 = 9
do not multiply the 8 by 10 because it will make it harder
then divide the answer by 10 to balance, = 0.9

10) What is a Divisor ?
The amount that you are dividing by.
It could be a whole number, a fraction or a decimal.

11) What is Division - Long Method
Also known as Divide With Regrouping or Chunking.

12) What is Division - Compact Method
Also known as Short or Bus Stop Method

Division

Sharing equally

Rewriting a Number is Smaller Units

Basic Fractions