Lesson Plan
Using the Partial Quotients Strategy for Division with One-Digit Divisors
It’s time to learn a new strategy! Teach your students to use the partial quotients strategy to solve long division problems with one-digit divisors and no remainder.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to solve division problems with one-digit divisors and no remainder using the partial quotients strategy.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Show your students a bag with 51 items in it like colored pencils, dominoes, or books.
- Tell your students that you would like to divide these items into three groups.
- Explain that while you could divide them one at a time into each group, you would like to be more efficient and put small, even amounts into each group repeatedly until you have used up all the items.
- Ask your students for suggestions about how to divide these items (e.g., place five items in three different groups at a time).
- Apply different students' suggestions for dividing these items until all of the items have been divided the evenly into 3 groups. Show students that each group contains 17 items. Tell students that they have figured out that 51 divided by 3 is 17.
- Tell students that this activity is preparing them to learn about partial quotient strategy for solving long division problems because it took several steps to find the quotient.
Beginning
- Provide an example of less items (e.g., 21 erasers) to divide equally.
- Provide a student-friendly definition along with an image of the term "efficient."
Intermediate
- Give students a minute to discuss with a partner the ideas they have for how to divide the items into 3 groups.