Posts tagged as "division"

Posted by Peter on 24th October 2011

Year 3 maths worksheet: more mental division

This page has 14 division questions which should be answered mentally. It keeps to the easier times tables, including 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x and 10 x tables. Children who have a good knowledge of times tables should whizz through this in little time. If tables are not known it becomes a much more laborious process. [...]

Posted by Peter on 20th September 2011

Resource of the Week: Division with remainders as fractions

This week we are looking at worksheets where the remainders from division are written as fractions. Children need a good knowledge of tables to work out the division ‘in their heads’ and this is probably best suited to Year 4, aged8/9+ years old. Children will be used to the concept of a remainder when dividing [...]

Posted by Peter on 5th September 2011

Maths worksheet: Division of money

I have had several requests to produce another division of money worksheet as it seems this is quite hard and children need plenty of practice with it – so here it is. Dividing money by 2-digit numbers requires a very good knowledge of multiplication, tables and subtraction. The long division method can be found in [...]

Posted by Peter on 31st August 2011

Year 5 maths worksheet: multiplication and division hops

Each of the questions on this page has two sets of coloured arrows above the spaces which need to be filled in. The arrows give the instruction, red for multiplication and yellow for division. There are eight hexagons, one of which has been filled in. The aim is to complete the other seven using the [...]

Posted by Peter on 18th July 2011

Year 5: Knowing Division Facts (2)

By Year 5 children should have a good knowledge of tables and this division page will show whether tables are known. It is also important to understand the relationship between division and multiplication as some children see the two as completely separate processes. It is the second page on this knowing division facts as I [...]

Posted by Peter on 1st July 2011

Year 5 division problems: calculating mentally

Here is the second page which looks at Year 5 division problems that can be answered by using mental skills. The questions cover a range of concepts involving division, including: remainders divisibility rule for 9 and factors. Watch out for errors that occur in questions such as number 9, where the number of whole lengths [...]

Posted by Peter on 21st June 2011

Year 4 worksheets: Division with remainders

Division nearly always requires carrying out more than one process, which makes it harder for children to process. A good knowledge of tables is also needed to complete division questions successfully, and this is especially true when there are remainders. For example: to find the answer to 37 divided by 5: ask how many fives [...]

Posted by Peter on 17th June 2011

Maths worksheets: Division of money

There are not many questions on this maths worksheet but they are quite tricky and a good knowledge of tables and how to do long division is needed. Each question has an amount of money to be divided by a 1 or 2-digit number. In all cases the answer wil have a zero in the [...]

Posted by Peter on 15th June 2011

Knowing Division Facts: Year 5 maths Worksheet

There is no doubt that most children find division harder than multiplication, yet there is little real reason for this to be so. Most division questions can be turned on their head to be made to look like multiplication. For example: 30 ÷ 5 =??  can be thought as what number times 5 makes 30? [...]

Posted by Peter on 11th May 2011

Short division of decimals (1)

Here is a page of practice on using the short method of division of decimals. The numbers being divided are just units and tenths which helps with getting the method correct. There are arguments for and against putting the decimal point in before you start, or leaving it until you have reached that point in [...]