Dividing Mult-Dioit Numbers Relating Mulioication to Division Having strong multiplication facts wil help throughout the division unt If students know that ‘4x52 20, they then know that 20+ 5= 4 or 20+ 4= 5. ‘A great way to explain this is that you have 20 items all together, and you are putting those 20 items into 4 equal groups. How many would be in each group? (Answer: 5) Multiplying can help you to solve a division problem. For example: What is 24 + 6? {will multiply numbers by 6 until | reach 84. wil start at 6 x 10 = 60, Each answer goes up by 6. 6x 10= 60 6x11 = 66 6x27 6x13=78 6x 18 = 88 as6=14 ‘Using Subtraction to Divide Using repeated subtraction can help students to sae IF theresa remainder, and show the sudens the numberof groups there are. There are two ways of doing this: 1. Students would look at @dison sentence tke: ia “They would then look athe mutile of 8 uni they get one ose the dividend (102). 80, the can then subtract 80 from the dividend of 102. That is 10. need at least 10 pockoges. ‘Thatleft us with a remainder of 22, since 22s bigger than 8, we can sill take more away. The student knew that 8 x2= 16, s0 they took 16 away. Thats another 2 groups, 10+2=12, - 80 10 “Wb 2. Tneed 2 rere packoacs. © Trove & muffins left over. 10+2=12 pockages.2, The second way to do this, (although it may look easier, can take more time), is to subtract 8 from 102 uni the remainder is smaller than 8, Then the student would could how many times they subiracted 8, which would give tem their answer. BJ102 loo afoairZoo etc. Divicing by Renaming In this strategy, students wil rename the dvidend into two smaller numbers (that when added ‘together equal our diidend). They would then do two easier division problems, add their answers together to get the answer for our orginal problem, "The dividend is the number you divide into parts. For example: 8 + 4= 2 ” dividend You can divide by renaming the dividend, |For example: Wat is72-+ 47 {wil rename 72 28 60 +12 12 sis the same 3460-4 taded to 128 cores tea