Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Materials:base ten blocks, paper, pencil

Zeros in the Quotient

5-12

Liz, Darcy, and Emma have to hang 317 flyers.

Can they split the flyers evenly among them?

Step 1

Step 2

1

3 
 3  1  7


 3

0 1

Model 317. Then share the hundreds equally into 3 sets.

How many hundreds are in each

equal set?

Are there any hundreds left

over?

1 0

3 
 3  1  7


 3

0 1


 10

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You cannot share 1 ten into the 3 sets.

Regroup the 1 ten as 10 ones.

How many tens are there now? How many ones?

Step 3 1 0 5 R 2

3 
 3  1  7


 3

0 1


 10

1 7


1 5

2

Share the ones equally into the 3 sets.

How many ones are in each equal set? How

many ones are left over? What is the quotient

and the remainder when you divide 317 by 3?

Since there is a remainder, the girls cannot split

the flyers evenly among them.

Divide: 317  3

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