Dividing decimals SHES

True or false?

You can use a decimal in the divisor

• False

• True

Answer explanation

FALSE! You must always move the decimal in the divisor to make it a whole number. THEN you move the decimal the same number of times in the dividend.

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

True or false?

You can use a decimal in the dividend

• False

• True

Answer explanation

True, just make sure you line up the decimal in the quotient!

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

• 1.8

• 6

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CCSS.3.OA.C.7

• 1.5

• 3

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

• The number that is being put into groups

• The number in each group

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CCSS.5.NF.B.3

Another way to say divisor

  

• The number that is being put into groups

• The number in each group

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CCSS.3.OA.A.2

What are the steps to division using the standard algorithm?

  

• Divide

  Multiply

  Bring Down

  Subtract

  Repeat

• Multiply

  Divide

  Subtract

  repeat

  Bring down

• Divide

  Subtract

  Multiply

  Bring down

  Repeat

• Divide

  Multiply

  Subtract

  Bring down

  Repeat

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.6

CCSS.6.NS.B.2

• 3

• .03

• .3

• .003

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7

• 5

• .05

• .5

• .005

Answer explanation

Remember you must move the decimal in the divisor AND the dividend one time to make your divisor a whole number first.

Your new equation would be

15 divided by 3

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CCSS.6.NS.B.3

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CCSS.5.NBT.B.7