Summary
Math Antics explains when to leave a remainder and when to keep dividing into decimals. A clear, animated 4-minute lesson you can drop straight into a grades 4-5 math block -- pause-friendly, with worked examples on screen.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
A few questions to talk through after watching “Division: Remainders vs. Decimals.”
- When is a remainder the best way to write an answer?
- When does it make more sense to keep dividing into decimals?
- How does the situation in a word problem decide which to use?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: remainder, decimal, quotient, divide, place value.
Try it: Solve one division problem two ways -- with a remainder and as a decimal.