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Long Division Template
Print this template and place in a plastic sleeve to help children learn long division.
Division Vocabulary
Keep this poster up in your classroom and recite it regularly to help children remember division vocabulary.
Point out to students how the division bracket looks like a diving board. Have them repeat, “The diver dives into the deep end and makes a splash. The divisor dives into the dividend and splashes up a quotient.” It helps to drag out the SH sound in both splash and quotient.
Long Division Video, Part 1: Intro to Long Division
Egg Carton Division
Children often struggle with the division concept of how many times a number ācan go intoā another number. To help them make sense of this, create tangible ways for numbers to actually āgo intoā other numbers with egg cartons.
Start by trimming the tops off an egg carton to make it easier for other cartons to fit on top of it. Cut another to have just ten slots.
Cut other egg cartons into ones, twos, threes, fours, fives and sixes. Use paint or maker to color each number so they can be more easily distinguished.
Cut off the last two slots of another egg carton to have a set of ten slots. Cut other cartons into 10 ones, 5 twos, and 2 fives. Have children experiment with these in the same way to find the answers to 10Ć·1, 10Ć·2, and 10Ć·5.
Once children have grasped the concept of how many times a number can go into another number evenly, introduce combinations that will not fit completely. Demonstrate with a carton of twelve slots and three fives that five can go into twelve twice, but will have three slots hanging over the edge if a third is added. The empty slots are the remainder.
Have children experiment with egg cartons to find the answers to 10Ć·6, 10Ć·4, 10Ć·3, 12Ć·5, 12Ć·7, 6Ć·4, and 5Ć·2.
How many times does 2 go into 12?
How many times does 3 go into 12?
How many times does 6 go into 12?
How many times does 4 go into 12?
How many times does 5 go into 10?
How many times does 4 go into 10? How many slots are empty?
How many times does 5 go into 12? How many slots are empty?
How many times does 3 go into 10? How many slots are empty?
Division Games
Print these games onto cardstock to help children practice their division facts while having fun.
Division Project
Use this fair-themed math project to wrap up a unit on division. Students can choose their own division sentences to create word problems, roll dice to get them, or can have them assigned.
Have students color and cut out tickets to act out going on each otherās rides a given number of times.
Children can also create 3D models of their rides with recyclables.
See-Saw Division
Use this illustration to help students understand the relationship between numbers in division.
Ways to Show Division
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