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5th grade math · Unit 4: Dividing whole numbers

Multi-step stories

What this lesson shows

Troops of 128 and 154 ride buses of 36: add, divide, then one more bus for the rest.

The worked example

The lesson works this one step by step: 128 and 154 riders, 36 to a bus. Then your kid tries one like it on paper.

The steps

  1. Plan the steps
  2. One equation for each step
  3. Read the leftover in the story

Helping at home

Plan the steps before computing: first how many in all, then how many groups. Write one equation for each step. Then read the leftover in the story: here it still needs a bus, so add one more.

If your kid gets stuck

Two steps. What does the leftover need?

Watch it with Lux

With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.

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Standards

  • Common Core 5.NBT.B.6
    Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
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