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Division with Decimals

Use written division methods in cases where the answer has up to two decimal places; divide decimals to hundredths by whole numbers

Lesson

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Use written division to obtain exact quotients to hundredths and explain exchanges across the decimal point.

Before teaching

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Activity

Ask for 84 ÷ 4 = 21 and explain one divide-multiply-subtract step. Ask whether 17 and 17.00 are equal: yes, trailing zeros do not change the amount. If unclear, revisit long division and decimal place value before this lesson.

Policy

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Printer, credit, and teaching notes

Check readiness directly. Prerequisite availability is not attainment.

Use these linked lessons over several short sessions. Start with the readiness check; if it is not secure, revisit the named prerequisites rather than treating source availability as learner readiness. Use Show, Guided, then Try. Read the active sheet on screen and answer on plain paper or by typing. No printer, cutting, purchase or internet is needed. The adult may read the exact prompt. Record any hints, scribing or calculation help. Oral explanations do not show independent reading or handwriting. Use extra space and time as needed; pause or split the lesson. Keep this adult guide and all keys private. Share only the active learner sheet. Before Try, put Show, Guided work and notes aside. Keep the Try givens available, including a unit table if supplied. Give no answer or target step during the first attempt. If help is needed, give it and mark the attempt supported. Review keys after the attempt. Record the actual response and help; do not invent success or infer mastery from one attempt. These are fictional paper or oral mathematics tasks. No personal information, public sharing, purchase, real transaction, physical experiment or real measurement is required.

Use the complete materials on screen or print only the current sheet. Keep adult guidance out of learner view.

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Use written division to obtain exact quotients to hundredths and explain exchanges across the decimal point.

Use written division to obtain exact quotients to hundredths and explain exchanges across the decimal point.

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Illustrative Mathematics · Practice link — not the full lesson

Making Hot Cocoa, Variation 1

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Before you open · source notes

Making Hot Cocoa supports division with decimal amounts. Not every whole-number only drill.

Free, no sign-in. A teacher solution is on the same page, so use the student view with your child.

Before you open

Ask the learner to divide a decimal amount and say what each share is.

Opening this link does not save learning or assess mastery.

Source, access and review notes

Public Illustrative Mathematics task page. The .html address responds HTTP 308 to this URL. An anonymous GET of this URL on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt. Where a teacher solution is present, it is on the same page as the student task; this check did not find a separate locked student view. An adult can use the student view section and should not read a solution aloud. Advertising was not observed in the fetched HTML text; that is not a browser, device, or ad-free guarantee. This is a paper or discussion task, not an automatically marked interactive game. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. Diagrams on the page use missing or filename-only alt text, so they are not an accessible image equivalent. Accessibility still depends on an adult describing the picture.

Illustrative Mathematics. “Making Hot Cocoa, Variation 1.” Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. External task; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.

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Check understanding

  • Compute 14.76 ÷ 4 using a written method to get 3.69
  • Explain how to continue long division past the decimal point to obtain a decimal quotient
  • Solve a context problem that requires dividing a decimal amount equally (e.g. sharing £18.60 among 5 people)
“Can your child use a written method to calculate something like '17 ÷ 4 = 4.25' — carrying the division past the decimal point to get a decimal answer rather than a remainder?”

Curriculum record

Type
Procedural
Subject
Mathematics
Domain
Multiplication & Division
Age range
Ages 10–12

Standards

ccss-math:5.NBT.7the-ontario-curriculum-mathematics-2020:ON-MATH-2020-G6-B2.11uk-nc-2013:Ma6/2.3i