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MATH DEVELOPMENT ALBUM

10.5 DIVISION WITH THE STAMP GAME


PRESENTATION:

1. Make a problem card such as 9369 * 3 = _____.

2. Lay out the value of the dividend with stamps.

3. Introduce the skittles.

4. Place the three skittles on the right side and say, "We are going to give out these stamps equally to these three skittles."

5. Starting with the thousands, say, "One for you, one for you and one for you."

6. Distribute all of the thousand stamps.

7. Observe work to see if all skittles received the same amount.

8. Move to the hundred category.

9. Give the 100 stamps out, placing them right under the 1000 stamps. There will be one row of hundred stamps in three columns.

10. When the 100 stamps are gone, move to the tens and units column.

11. Continue to distribute stamps in same manner until all are gone.

12. The quotient is "the share of one skittle."

13. Write and read the equation and the quotient.


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