Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

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Whole Number Operations VII

Understand Division

Pablo packs 10 apples into baskets.

He puts 2 apples in each basket.

How many baskets does he pack?

To find how many baskets,

separate 10 into equal groups of 2.

Use repeated subtraction.

Yo u subtracted 5 times.

Pablo packs 5 baskets.

Yo u can also write a division sentence to show how to

separate 10 into equal groups of 2.

Write: 10 
 2  5

Read as:“Ten divided by two equals five.”

Find how many groups.

1. 16 in all 2. 9 in all 3. 20 in all
   8 in each group 3 in each group 5 in each group


2. 14 in all 5. 18 in all 6. 15 in all
   2 in each group 9 in each group 5 in each group


3. 36 in all 8. 12 in all 9. 10 in all
   4 in each group 3 in each group 2 in each group

number

in all

number in

each group

number of

groups

division sentence

Think

How many groups

of 2 are in 10?

Count back by 2s

until you reach 0.

8, 6, 4, 2, 0

0 1 2 3 4

–2 –2 –2 –2 –2

5 6 7 8 9 10

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