4th Grade Division Reference Chart For Parents

Information for parents

...parents

Fourth Class

Helping your child with division

When your child is in fourth class he/she will learn to do short division as

sharing. This tip sheet shows you how your child might divide the

number 257 by 3.

Let’s pretend that we want to share 257 sweets equally between 3 children. Your

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3 257

child might write this as:

2 hundreds

5 tens

7 units

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First I will try to share the hundreds between the children. As I cannot share 2

hundreds equally between 3 children, I will exchange the 2 hundreds for 20 tens.

20 tens

5 tens

7 units

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3 2

In total I now have 25 tens to share.

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I share the 25 tens equally among the 3 children. Each child gets 8 tens each.

3 2

(That uses up 24 of my tens). There is one ten left over.

8 tens

1 ten

7 units

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