Partial Quotients Support

OC Lesson 43

CC.4.NBT.6

Partial Quotients is a great way to learn division.  It typically comes BEFORE learning the traditional method of long division, and it gets kids used to working with vertical division, as opposed to a horizontal equation.  There can be slight differences in how different teachers introduce Partial Quotients, so I’m going to share with you a few different instructional videos that each take a slightly different approach to showing the process.  This might create some confusion among students (for obvious reasons) so I encourage parents/family members to preview the videos and decide which one will best help their fourth grader, or to simply watch them themselves so they can consider using some of the different ideas when working on homework with their fourth grader.

Video 1 – Mr. Moss shows the methods introduced in class.

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Video 2 – This video shows a slightly different method.  Instead of finding the partial quotients by doing smaller division problems, the teacher uses multiplication instead.  This might “resonate” with some students more than my method, depending on how they think about math.

Posted in Learning Resources, Math, Unit 1|By Jon Moss