Divide numbers just beyond the times tables - Teaching Presentation - Year 3

This presentation provides three days of teaching that cover the objectives:

• Divide numbers just beyond the times tables (no remainders).
• Divide numbers just beyond the times tables, becoming aware that there may sometimes be a ‘remainder’.
• Divide numbers just beyond the times tables (with remainders).

It includes starter activities, whole class teaching, group activities, practice sheets and mastery questions. It can be used on a variety of interactive whiteboards.

Day 1 Teaching
Write 65 ÷ 5, then sketch a line from 0 to 65. We could draw every hop of 5, but we don’t need to! Are there more than 10 lots of 5 in 65? Draw a jotting to show 10 lots of 5 to 50 and 3 lots of 5 to 65. Add: 10 lots + 3 lots = 13 lots of 5. Repeat for 70 ÷ 5, 52 ÷ 4 and 42 ÷ 3.

Day 2 Teaching
Write 54 ÷ 3. How many 3s in 54? More than 10? Where do 10 lots of 3 get to on the line? How much is left? How many 3s? Draw an empty number line jotting to show this, writing 10 × 3 then 8 × 3. Repeat with other divisions, e.g. 112 ÷ 8 and 51 ÷ 3. Use an ENL to find 43 ÷ 3. Once you get to 42, point out that there is 1 left over. If we had 43 children and we wanted to put them into groups of 3, we’d have 14 groups and 1 child left over. We call this ‘left over’ number a remainder. This is an important word to remember…

Day 3 Teaching
Write 46 ÷ 3. Children help you to sketch an ENL a jotting: a jump of 10 × 3 to 30, then a jump of 5 × 3 to 45. Point to the gap between 45 and 46. Label it ‘r1’ to stand for remainder 1. There is 1 left over. Repeat for 78 ÷ 5, 115 ÷ 5 and 51 ÷ 4.

This teaching is part of Hamilton’s Year 3 Multiplication and Division block. Each Hamilton maths block contains a complete set of planning and resources to teach a term’s worth of objectives for one of the National Curriculum for England’s maths areas.