Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Single-Digit Division StudyJam

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Overview

In this interactive activity, students will be led through steps to divide a number into equal groups. There are teaching activities as well as practice activities available. Practice problems can be printed as a handout. There is a karaoke song with printable lyrics to help students remember the strategies taught during the activity. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short quiz to assess their understanding.

    Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 4

    MA19.4.12

    Use strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division to find whole-number quotients and remainders with one-digit divisors and up to four-digit dividends.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:MA19.4.12

    Vocabulary

    • Quotient
    • Dividend
    • Divisor
    • Divide
    • Multiply
    • Multiple
    • Equation
    • Remainder
    • Area model
    • Greatest multiple
    • Decompose
    • Compose
    • Array
    • Properties of operations
    • Unknown factor
    • Partial quotient

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • How to decompose and compose numbers in a variety of ways using place value and the properties of operations to demonstrate a variety of strategies for division.
    • Division can be described as an unknown factor problem.
    • A variety of contextual situations can be represented with a division equation.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Use strategies based on place value to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Use the properties of operations to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Use arrays and area models to find whole number quotients and remainders.
    • Illustrate division situations with rectangular arrays and area models.
    • Write an equation to represent a division situation.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    Division expressions represent
    • The number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups.
    • The number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.
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