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Chapter 5: Short division with remainders

  • Strand Division
  • Level Level 5
  • Practice 105 questions with step-by-step solutions

Step-by-step practice: maths (Level 5). Small steps, repeated until fluent. Content: Divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number with the short written method (Y5 paraphrase), Interpret a remainder in a problem: round up, round down or keep it (Y5 paraphrase), Check a division with multiplication and addition (Y5 paraphrase), Divide with the tables known, and estimate the answer first (Y4 paraphrase).

Open Level 5 chapter

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

  • Use the short method to divide a two-digit number by a one-digit number
  • Write answers with a remainder
  • Decide what a remainder means in a problem
  • Estimate with the tables, and check the answer
  • Solve sharing problems with remainders

You should already know

  • Times tables to 12 times 12 (chapter 3)
  • Multiplying a two-digit number by a one-digit number (chapter 4)

Where this leads

  • Long division with two-digit divisors (a later level)

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 5.1 Short division with no remainder
  2. 5.2 Writing a remainder
  3. 5.3 What the remainder means in a problem
  4. 5.4 Estimating with the tables, and checking
  5. 5.5 Sharing equally, with pounds and remainders
  6. Summary and key words
  7. Check-up and practice test questions

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