Division Strategies

Here are a few short videos detailing the strategies that we have been using in this unit.  Our test is Tuesday November 26--students may choose the strategy that works best for them on the test, they will not be required to use one strategy or the other.

Long Division (no remainder)
Long Division (with remainder)
Partial-Quotient
Partial Quotient (LearnZillion)
Division using Extended Multiplication and Friendly Numbers - this is similar to our PQ strategy and emphasizes the use of multiplication in division

We have also looked at interpreting remainders in real-world settings.  If your child needs more understanding, here is a LearnZillion that we looked at in class.  The main idea we are communicating is that sometimes a remainder can be overlooked (for instance, if all students are to receive 2 cookies and the cafeteria made a few extra) and sometimes we need to account for it (e.g.: we decided it wouldn't be fair to leave someone at school for a field trip, we would need to increase the number of buses we request; or that we would play an extra round of a video game in order to score a high score instead of simply falling short of our goal!).