Curriculum placement
Grade 6. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.
Fluent whole-number division
Divide multidigit whole numbers efficiently
Problem types
- Divide with the standard algorithm
- What the remainder means
- Steps of the standard division algorithm
- Find the error in a long division
Builds on
- Dividing by a two-digit number
- Missing factors and quotients · Earlier idea
Long division finds the unknown factor that multiplies the divisor to give the dividend.
Leads to
- Telling rationals from irrationals · See it applied
Dividing the numerator by the denominator turns a fraction into a decimal. Rational numbers give decimals that end or repeat.
- Dividing polynomials · Extend the idea
Polynomial long division follows the same divide, multiply, subtract and bring-down steps as whole-number long division.
Related skills
- Greatest common factor and least common multiple · Related idea
Repeated division with remainders finds the greatest common factor of two numbers.
- The four operations with decimals · Shared foundations
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