Posts tagged as "division"

Posted by Peter on 23rd September 2010

Year 3 maths worksheet: dividing by 1

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 [...]

Posted by Peter on 21st September 2010

Year 4 maths worksheet: Dividing by 10 and 100

Children generally find division harder than multiplication. This is often because the process involves multiplying to find the answer, especially with pencil and paper methods. This page, however,  is aimed at rapid answering using mental methods. Dividing by ten is the inverse of multiplying by ten. To multiply by 10 move each digit one place [...]

Posted by Peter on 18th August 2010

Resource of the Week: Year 4 division problems

This page has a range of different ways of asking division questions which children need to be able to recognise and there are a number  of methods that can be used to work out the answers mentally. It is important the tables are known so that the facts can be used. For example if it [...]

Posted by Peter on 14th July 2010

Resource of the Week: Year 5 division problems

As we get to the end of term here is a page which can be used to check that children can use a range of methods to solve division problems mentally. It is important the tables are known so that the facts can be used. For example if it is known that 6 x 6 [...]

Posted by Peter on 23rd March 2010

Year 4 maths worksheet: Division with remainders

Here is another page 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. The remainder goes on the top line (numerator) and the bottom number (denominator) is the [...]

Posted by Peter on 19th January 2010

Maths worksheet: Divide by 10 with remainders

This maths worksheet contains a straightforward set of questions on dividing 2-digit numbers by ten, with remainders. It is aimed at children in Year 2 who are just getting to grips with division and know their ten times table. The best way to do these is to go through the ten times table until the [...]

Posted by Peter on 24th November 2009

Maths Worksheet: Divide by 100 mentally

Here we have the next worksheet in our series of dividing mentally. This page looks at dividing larger numbers by 100. All the numbers are multiples of 100 so there will be no decimals involved with the answers. As has been said before, but the idea has to be repeated many times for children to [...]

Posted by Peter on 17th November 2009

Maths Worksheet: Divide by 10 with decimals (2)

This is the second in our series of dividing by 10 with decimals. These should all be completed mentally as all it involves is moving each digit one place to the right and ensuring that a decimal point is placed between the units and tenths. The key to success here is to understand place value [...]

Posted by Peter on 10th November 2009

Maths Worksheet: Dividing by 10 with decimals

Today’s maths worksheet is all about mental arithmetic. It looks at dividing numbers by 10 where the answers involve decimals. Download “Divide By 10 Decimals 1”File Size: 53.26 KB

Posted by Peter on 27th October 2009

Year 4 Maths Worksheet: division problems (pg 2)

This is a follow up page to the earlier solving division problems in your head worksheet. This has a range of different ways of asking division questions which children need to be able to recognise and there are a range of methods that can be used to work out the answers mentally. It is important [...]