Posts tagged as "division"

Here is a follow up page to that published earlier, giving more practice with simple division. If children have a good knowledge of the 2x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables they should find these quite straightforward. The only potentially tricky ones are where the missing number is in the middle of the number sentence eg [...]

Once children have learnt the 2x, 4x, 5x and 10x tables they can put their knowledge to good use by working out division questions. Because division is the inverse of multiplication the only knowledge needed to work out 14 divided by 2 is that 2 x 7 = 14. This is a more abstract way [...]

This is the second page that looks at the relationship between division and multiplication and how knowledge of one fact can lead to knowing several other facts. Some children fail to realise that division and multiplication are related, so when it comes to long division later, which involves mostly multiplication, they are lost. This sheet [...]

This page looks for a rapid response from children to show that they clearly understand what is happening when numbers become 10 times or 100 times smaller. The process is simple: to divide by 10 move each digit one place to the right. To divide by 100 move each digit 2 places to the right. [...]

This is the second of our pages on dividing decimals mentally. Concentrating on just one decimal place it is a good test of how well children know their tables and understand place value. This is published in our Year 6 maths worksheets, under Knowing Number Facts. As well as these resources further number worksheets can [...]

It is important to show children the relationship between multiplication and division as this makes division so much easier. Here we have a page which shows that if you know one multiplication fact you can quickly work out two division facts. For example: if you know that 5 times 7 is 35 then you can [...]

By year 4 most children will be confident with the concept of remainders after dividing. The next step is to ‘neaten up’ the division so that there is no remainder. What is left becomes part of the answer as a fraction. It is easy to write the remainder as a fraction as is shown on [...]

Dividing by one might seem a bit obvious to us, but it is not always the case for children who don’t yet have a good understanding of division. Dividing by 1 can be explained in two ways: sharing equally – the sweets are shared equally between 1 person, in other words the lucky person gets [...]