My kids kept getting the vocabulary of division mixed up. I don't blame 'em! Quotient is pretty easy to remember, but divisor and dividend?! Not so much. :) So we watched the BrainPop video on division again...very helpful reminder! One of the activities called for the kids to use a visual tool to identify the parts of a division problem. So I whipped up my own activity and the kids loved it!
Head over to my TpT store to check it out!
One way that my students remember is that dividend is a longer word than divisor. Dividend is your larger number.... longer word, larger number... get it? That seems to help my kiddos :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Terri! I mentioned that to the kids when we first introduced division (kind of like minute and hour hand when teaching time), but it didn't really stick. So I hope that doubling up with your way and this visual will help them remember it better. Fingers crossed!
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