Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

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Division Rules

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Yo u divide when you want to:


separate a set into 
share a set equally.

equal parts.

Cal has 12 pears. He puts Jo, Meg, and Cara share 12

4 pears into each bag. How pears equally. How many pears

many bags does he use? does each girl get?

Cal uses 3 bags. Each girl gets 4 pears.

Here are some rules that can help you

to divide correctly.

When the divisor is one, the quotient

is the same as the dividend.

When the divisor and the dividend are

the samenumber, the quotient is always one.

When the dividend is zero,

the quotient is zero.

The divisor can neverbe zero.

12 
 4  3

dividend
divisorquotient

4

divisor^3 
^1 ^2 

quotient

dividend

Divide.

1. 6
    6  2. 5
    0  3. 1
    7  4. 3
    3  5. 2
    0  6. 9
    9 


2. 4
    0  8. 1
    5  9. 1
    0  10. 4
    4  11. 1
    2  12. 1
    6 

8

1 
 8  8 
 1  8

1

5 
 5 5 
 5  1

0

6 
 0

9 
 0 is impossible.

0 
 6  0

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