Breaking Apart to Divide

Lesson 1-3

Example: 48 divided by 4

Step 1: Break 48 into 40 + 8

Step 2: (40 + 8) divided by 4

Step 3: (40 divided by 4) + (8 divided by 4)

Step 4: 10 + 2

Step 5: Your answer is 12

Sometimes your dividend can be broken into 3 numbers, instead of 2 like above.

Example
963 divided by 3= (900 + 60 +3) divided by 3= 300 + 20 + 1 = 321

THIS IS JUST ANOTHER NEAT WAY TO DIVIDE!!