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Lesson Plan

A Hearty Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! Use this fun hands-on lesson with your students to practice solving division problems with one-digit divisors. Students will explore different strategies they can use to solve division problems.
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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to use different strategies to solve division problems with one-digit divisors.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Tell students that you have a question for them and that you’d like them to think hard about the correct answer.
  • Ask, "What did the calculator say to the pencil on Valentine’s Day?"
  • Allow students to have time to think and to share their answers by raising their hands and being called on.
  • Tell students that the correct answer to that joke is, “You can count on me!”
  • Explain to students that today they will participate in a fun Valentine’s Day math activity, which focuses on division and the different division strategies.