Help Your Child with Maths
Help Your Child with Division
Division is about sharing groups of items or people into equal parts.
Your child might understand this most easily when they think about fairness, making sure that every person or group is treated the same. No one likes to see a sibling getting a larger slice of pizza or a bigger packet of sweets than them.
It will also help if your child understands that they can use their tables to solve simple division calculations, so that is what this page concentrates on.
Here is a step-by-step guide to using your tables to solve simple division calculations.
To help your child understand the process and feel confident work through these five steps, encouraging your child to talk about what they see and do. Short frequent practise helps too, so it might be fun to work through one step at a time, 15 minutes should do it.
1. Watch
Watch David solve a simple division calculation.
Top tip: Pay special attention when his twin brother Max uses his multiplication tables to help.
2. Try
Try solving a calculation for yourself and then watch David and Max to see how you got on.
Top tip: Notice how David eliminates all the tables with answers larger than the number he is looking for.
3. Practise
Practise solving two more examples for yourself and then watch David and Max to check your answers.
Top tip: Do you see how David is careful to record in the correct column so that he doesn’t get mixed up?
4. Build Confidence
Build confidence by completing these work cards that David made for you. He thinks you are nearly ready to solve division calculations by yourself, so he has called them ‘Nearly There’ cards.
Top tip: Each card has six calculations, do them all at once or one at a time. There are answer cards so you can check your working out.
5. Celebrate success
Celebrate success by completing these final calculations. When you really understand how to do something people sometimes say the ‘penny has dropped’. David calls this your ‘Penny Drop’ card.
Top tip: : Remember, these videos and cards are here for you to use as often as you like.