Of all the arithmetic operations, explaining the division of numbers to a child is the most difficult task. And very often math lessons at school are not enough. In this case, parents should help their child.
Instructions
Step 1
Mathematics is a subject that haunts the child throughout the entire period of schooling. And she abhors a gap in knowledge. If the child did not immediately understand how to divide the numbers, then the parents should correctly and clearly explain to him. Otherwise, further problems in understanding may arise.
Step 2
Division can be without or with a remainder. The easiest option is the first. In this case, in order to explain the division of numbers to the child, you can use household items. For example, parents can take 9 candies and ask the baby to divide them equally between mom, dad and child. In this form, the baby will quickly master a simple division.
Step 3
If the child needs to explain how to divide the numbers with the remainder, then you can also use household items or products. For example, you can take 7 candies and ask to share them between dad, mom and grandmother. As a result, the baby will have 1 candy in the remainder, which he will happily and deservedly be able to eat himself.
Step 4
The above method will help you easily explain to a child from 5 to 8 years old how to divide a larger number by a smaller one.
Step 5
A school-age child will have to move away from linking division to objects. But parents can also easily help him understand a difficult topic.
Step 6
Sit next to the student and open the multiplication table. A child must understand multiplication before studying division. Try going over the table with him in reverse order. For example, 6 * 4 = 24. And what happens if you try to divide 24 by 6. Thus, talk to him through the entire table. Ultimately, the child should easily navigate the table and learn to divide.
Step 7
In order for the information to be maximally entrenched in the baby's brain, let him perform arithmetic division operations in writing.
Step 8
You can teach a child to divide with a column only after he has well mastered the previous methods of division. Otherwise, the attempts will not bring results.
Step 9
For the parent, the primary task is to explain to the child the definition that the dividend is what is being divided, and the divisor is what is being divided into. It is customary to call the final result of this arithmetic operation private.
Step 10
Now explain to your child the basic principles of division. Take a two-digit number that can be divided without a remainder. For example, 84. And show how to divide it by a column by 6. To do this, place the dividend on the left. And the divider, through a special sign in the form of an inverted letter "T", is on the right. Now take the smallest number that divides the left number. This is 8. It can only fit the number 6 1 time. So we write 1 to the right under the division symbol.
Step 11
Multiply 6 by 1. You get 6. Write this number under the number 8. Now the child needs to subtract the number 6 from the number 8. There remains 2. Having made a horizontal line under the number 6 on the left, write it. Add the remaining number 4. As a result, the number 24 should be obtained under the line on the left. It must be divided by 6. At this point, the child should remember the previous method and the inverse multiplication table. The resulting number 4 must be placed under the symbol in the form of an inverted letter "T", to the right of the first number. As a result, it turns out that the quotient when dividing 84 by 6 will be equal to 14.
Step 12
So try to share different numbers with your child. If the kid has mastered division with a dividend in the form of a two-digit number, then you can start training on three-digit and four-digit numbers.
Step 13
If on the left side of the division with the remainder as a result there is a number that is not divisible by the divisor, then it is called the remainder.
