Many parent wonder about how math is done now days, so we wanted to take a minute to show you how we use base ten to meet the fifth grade standards for understanding division. The following is a video of how base ten is modeled to solve three digits divided by a two digit number.
We use base ten blocks in class to do this, but it gets pretty laborious. Here are some examples of that:
So in order to make the Base Ten Model more efficient, we use base ten grids instead.
This is how that looks:
Ask your child to explain to you how this works, they've really got the hang of it.
