Grade 4 - Progress in Mathematics

Zero in the Quotient

12-9

?

Think

14 
 2  8  6  5  14 
2 Not enough thousands

14 
 2  8  6  5  14  28 Enough hundreds

Divide: 286514.

Estimate. 2865  14

Think: 2  1 

Tr y 2.

Divide the Divide Divide

hundreds. the tens. the ones.

2 20 2 0 4 R 9

1 4
 2  8  6  5 1 4
 2  8  6  5 1 4
 2  8  6  5

2 8 2 8 2 8

6 9 6 36

99  0 99  0

9 6 5 9 6 5

99 5 6

99  09

Check. 14  204  2856 2856  9  2865

Study these examples.

3 0 0 R 5 $ 3.0 6

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

6 3 $ 7 8

0 $ 1 5

 0  0

5 $ 1 5 6

 0 1 5 6

5 1 5 0

14 
 6 Not

enough tens

Write 0 in the

tens place.

Bring down

the ones.

$ 3.0 6

 2 6

1 8 3 6

6 1 2 0

$ 7 9.5 6

Check.

3 0 0

 2 1

3 0 0

6 0 0

6 3 0 0

 5

6 3 0 5

Check.

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