This activity will help you practice solving division problems with remainders. You will need a spool of string or thread, a ruler, scissors, and assorted beads.
The activity will help you make a personalized bracelet. Before you make a bracelet, let's solve a division problem first.
The string or the thread is the most important material for this activity. You can't put those beads around your wrist without the string or thread. If each bracelet should be 8 inches long, how many bracelets could you make with a string or thread 376 inches long? We work a division problem for this. Our division problem is:
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Do you still remember the steps for solving this kind of division problem?
First, we underline. What are the first digits we underline in 376? We underline 37. But 37 is not a multiple of 8. So we work the problem by changing the line under 37 into a division sign and writing the multiple of 8.
Then we think of a multiple of 8 that comes just before 37. We have 32. Now we divide 32 by 8, which equals 4 (32 ÷ 8 = 4). Here's how it looks now:
Then we subtract 32 from 37, which equals 5 (37 - 32 = 5). Our remainder is 5. What's the next thing we do? We regroup (carry) this remainder and write it small in front of our ones digit, like this:
The next problem we have is 56 divided by 8. Since 5 is not part of the original number under the division sign, we don't write a zero in the quotient, or answer. Let's divide 56 by 8. The answer equals 7 (56 ÷ 8 = 7).
You can make 47 bracelets. You may not have as much string, but you can use division to figure out how many bracelets you can make; so start cutting and putting those beads on your string.
Ready to move on to the next lesson?
Division with Zero in the Quotient
