Division

Our grade 5 mathematicians keep working on developing division fluency and automaticity. Division is a procedure that breaks down a problem into easier steps. You would wonder why division is important at all. There are a few reasons why and actually many places where we use division in our lives.

A Band or Rock group

Division is something that you use daily. If you are in a Rock group of any kind or a band for instance. You might be the lead singer, the guitarist or even the drummer. Each one of you has their own place, and when you play a song, that song is divided into different parts where each one gets a piece to do. In other words you divide up the music or song.

Art Projects
Have you ever made a collage as a group, or painted a wall for a community project. Whenever you do something like that you are given a certain piece to do. This is division. When divided the workload becomes easy and light and when working together side by side, you are learning valuable people skills.

Choreography
As a choreographer you need to be able to divide the piece you want to perform, into smaller pieces so that everyone will be able to do and give their best, whether you dance or choreograph an orchestra. In the end of the day they need to flow together in harmony and you will use division to accomplish that..

Division is a basic skill you use daily! Use our class resources to practice it!

• Mathletics Unit 4
• EDM home resources
• The Quotient Cafe
• Refraction
• Intro to long division
• Dividing by two digits
• Reminders
• Division Word Problems

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