The Singing Hedgehog Guide to:
Division 1
Here we will use the "bus stop" or "snowplough" method.
Try not to say 'remainder' which we put at the end in Junior Maths!
Say instead 'left over'.
To do a question like 64 ÷ 4 we first set it out with the 64 in the "bus stop":
Now we divide 4 into 6, which goes once with 2 '
left over
'.
We put the 1 above the 6 and the 2 like a borrow in a take away:
Finally we divide 4 into 24 which is of course 6:
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