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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