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The divider: with or without remainders

The divider: with or without remainders

TLF ID L2006

Solve divisions such as 147/7 or 157/6 (some have remainders). Use a partitioning tool to help solve randomly generated divisions. Learn strategies to do complex arithmetic in your head. Split a division into parts that are easy to work with, use times tables, then solve the original calculation.

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Educational details

Educational value
  • Allows students to explore partitioning strategies for solving divisions.
  • Provides opportunities for students to recognise factors and multiples, and recall multiplication and division facts.
  • Allows students to solve division problems with and without remainders.
  • Encourages repeated use through randomisation of division problems.
  • Provides options for looking up times tables during learning activities.
  • Includes text feedback via an animated character.
  • Provides an option to print a worksheet that records how the student used the partitioning tool to solve the equation.
Year level

5; 6; 7

Topics Factors Number patterns Area Division Mental arithmetic Commutativity Distributivity
Learning area
  • Mathematics

Other details

Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: CWA New Media
  • Organization: CWA New Media
  • Description: Technical implementer
  • Address: NEW ZEALAND
  • URL: http://www.cwa.co.nz/
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Person: Michael Wagner
  • Description: Script writer
  • Person: Gill Thomas
  • Description: Subject matter expert
  • Person: Vincent Wright
  • Description: Educational validator
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
Access profile
  • Colour independence
  • Device independence
  • Hearing independence
Learning Resource Type
  • Interactive
Rights
  • © Education Services Australia Ltd, 2016, except where indicated under Acknowledgements.