Cracking Remainders: Understanding Division

Cracking Remainders: Understanding Division

Learning Objective

Interpret remainders and use them to solve division problems.

What do you already know about remainders in division?

Exploring Remainders

Discuss what a remainder is and why it occurs in division.

Interpreting Remainders

Learn how to interpret remainders in the context of division problems.

Using Remainders

Apply remainders to solve division problems.

Strategies for Division

Discuss strategies based on place value and properties of operations for finding quotients and remainders.

Illustrating Quotients

Use equations, rectangular arrays, and area models to illustrate quotients.

Interactive Practice

Engage in interactive division problems with remainders.

Review and Summary

Recap the key concepts of interpreting and using remainders in division.

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.