Learning Resource Type

Learning Activity

Nursery Rhyme Division Problems

Subject Area

Mathematics

Grade(s)

4

Overview

Students will complete a division word problem activity that requires them to find whole-number quotients and quotients with remainders. This activity should be used after the students have been taught division strategies. This activity can be used as an assessment or extra practice for solving division word problems.

This activity results from the ALEX Resource Gap Project.

    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.

    Phase

    After/Explain/Elaborate
    Learning Objectives

    Learning Objectives

    I can solve word problems with whole-number quotients and remainders.

    Activity Details

    Students will complete the activity Nursery Rhyme Division Problems. This activity is best used after students have developed strategies for the division of whole numbers. It should be used as an assessment or as extra practice.  

    Assessment Strategies

    Assessment Strategies

    The students' division strategies on the activity Nursery Rhyme Division Problems will assess the learning objective.

    Background and Preparation

    Background / Preparation

    The teacher will need to print paper copies of the activity Nursery Rhyme Division Problems. It is best for every student to have a paper copy of this activity in order to show their division strategies. 

    Digital Tools / Resources

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