Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- that division is related to multiplication in terms of finding a missing factor. The missing factor being either the number of groups or the number of items in each group.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Interpret quantities in a division situation as the number of objects in each groupor the number of equal groups.
- Use a model or drawing to illustrate a quotient.
- Write word problems for division context involving equal groups and fair shares.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- a division expression represents either the number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups or the number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.
Vocabulary
- Partitive division
- Measurement division
- Missing factor
- Factor
- Quotient
- Partition
- Product
- Divisor
- Dividend
- Equal share
