Monday December 8th

Happy Monday!

Today we are dividing number with decimals. We will NOT be getting remainders on tonight's homework. Let's take a look at 1c.

2.4 divided by 8.

             The first number is ALWAYS the whole. This means it will be on the inside of our standard  
              division problem.

              Our first step is to bring up the decimal. Do not forget that it exists!!!

              Now, you work the problem as if it is any normal division problem.

              Does 8 go into 2? No. Does 8 go into 24? Yes, 3 times. Our answer then is .3

Okay now take a look at 1d.

2.4 divided by 80

              I can see that this problem is very similar to 1c.
       
              We know that 80 is the same as 8 x 10. So we could change our problem to

2.4 divided by 8 divided by 10. If you can tell, 2.4 divded by 8 is the same problem as 1c. This equaled .3

Now we can take the .3 and divide by 10 which equals .03.

You could do the standard algorithm on both problems if you wanted!

Good luck on homework and I can't wait to see you all tomorrow!

Mrs. C