Oct25

What Is a Division? Basic Concepts

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In today’s post we’re going to learn what a division is, and what we call the numbers that make up a division.

Dividing is the same as sharing in equal parts

For example: Imagine we have 10 cupcakes. We want to put them into 2 boxes so that each box has the same number of cupcakes. How would we divide the cupcakes?

We’ve divided 10 cupcakes between 2 boxes and we’ve put 5 cupcakes in each box.

What makes a division?

A division is made up of different numbers, and each of these numbers has a special name. We want to share 7 pineapples between 2 boxes…

We’ve put 3 pineapples in each box, and we have one pineapple left over.

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The total number of pineapples that we have to give out is called the Dividend.
The number of boxes that we want to to put the pineapples into is called the Divisor.
The number of pineapples that we’ve put into each box is called the Quotient.
The number of pineapples that we have left over is called the Remainder.

Types of divisions:

Exact divisions: When the remainder is zero, or in other words, when there’s nothing left over when we’ve finished dividing (sharing).

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Integer division: When the remainder is not zero, or, when we have 1 or more than 1 left over when we’ve finished the division (sharing).

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And that’s it for today’s post! I hope you’ve enjoyed learning the basic concepts of divisions. If you want to keep practising divisions and much more, you just have to log in to Smartick.

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