Lesson Plan
Division Skits
Get students moving with this interactive lesson! They will use real objects to act out skits while practicing their division skills. This lesson can used on its own or as support for the lesson Introduction to Division with Remainders.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Introduction to Division with Remainders lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Introduction to Division with Remainders lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to divide whole numbers with remainders using base ten blocks and the standard algorithm.
Language
Students will be able to create, act out, and solve simple division skits with grade level words using peer interactions for support.
Introduction
(4 minutes)- Show students the package of treats (cookies, etc.) that you brought to class. Think aloud, "I have some cookies here and I want to share them all with you in a fair way. What information do I need in order to share these cookies?"
- Invite students to talk to a partner before sharing out to the whole class. Note students' responses on the board. Confirm that you will need to know the number of cookies and the number of students. Count these numbers and record them on the board (e.g., "I have 44 cookies and 20 students").
- Demonstrate a couple of strategies for dividing the cookies. Tell students that you could walk around and distribute one cookie to each student and see if there are enough to give everyone a second cookie. Show them how you could also use skip counting and the divvy out method to determine the solution. Discuss how many cookies remain and solicit students' ideas on what to do with the remaining cookies. Jot down their ideas.
- Explain that this cookie problem and solution is a real-life "division with remainders" problem and that today they will create, act out, and solve division problems in small groups using objects in the classroom.