Help your students put their best foot forward when it comes to this lesson that allows them to solve problems both in a group setting and individually.
Invite the students to bring their math journals and a pencil to the class meeting area.
Tell them to place their supplies on the floor next to them.
Tell the students that today they're going to learn a strategy for solving long division problems. Write the word Division on the board.
Let the students know that division is an operation that tells us the number of groups that can be made out of another number.
On the board, set up a division problem, such as 17/5. Solve the problem so that you are left with the answer 3 with a remainder of 2. Label each number with its corresponding name. 17 should be the dividend, 5 is the divisor, 3 is the quotient and 2 is the remainder.
Define these terms for your students as follows:
Dividend: In a division problem, the number that is to be divided is called the dividend.
Divisor: In a division problem, the number that divides the dividend is called the divisor.
Quotient: Upon division, the number obtained other than the remainder is called the quotient.
Remainder: The remainder is the number that is left over after dividing.