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Division
Learn and practice division with our interactive guide designed for grade 1-3 kids. Engage in examples to strengthen your division skills and boost your math proficiency.
Division is a way of finding out how many times one number can be divided into another number. It's like sharing a certain number of things equally among a certain number of people. For example, if you have 8 apples and you want to share them with 2 people, you can use division to find out how many apples each person will get. You would write it like 8 ÷ 2 = 4. That means each person gets 4 apples.
Another way to think of it is to think of it as "how many groups of a certain size can fit into a larger number?". For example, if you have 12 pencils and you want to know how many groups of 4 pencils can fit into it, you would divide 12 by 4, which gives you 3. So, 12 pencils can be divided into 3 groups of 4 pencils each.
It's also written as 12 ÷ 4 = 3
Division is the opposite of multiplication, which is finding out how many in total when you multiply two numbers together.
There are a number of signs that people may use to indicate division. The most common one is ÷, but the backslash / is also used. Sometimes people will write one number on top of another with a line between them. This is also called a fraction.
Example signs for "a divided by b":
a ÷ b
a/b
a
b
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