What is division?

#TheCompleteSeries5lessons

In these lessons, children will share objects equally, group pictures and write division number sentences. These practical division resources are bound to get your class confident with, and excited about, dividing.

#Lesson1DivisionbySharing

Teach your Year 2 class all about division by sharing. This lesson plan pack includes slides and resources which explain equal sharing and simple division strategies such as drawing or sharing objects. This is the first in a series of five complete lessons. It introduces the concept of division. Your class will talk about what the division symbol means and solve problems by moving objects. This hands-on lesson will help your children begin to feel more confident sharing objects equally into groups.

#Lesson2DivisionbyGrouping

Teach your Year 2 children all about division by grouping with this ready to teach lesson plan pack and resources. It includes detailed planning, slides and worksheets which help children learn about grouping division by drawing or using objects. Through the differentiated activities, children will begin to group pictured objects to solve problems. They will also be encouraged to think about alternative simple division methods, where amounts can be shared equally into groups. 

#Lesson3DivisionNumberSentences

Division numbers sentences and how to solve them, are the focus of this Year 2 Maths lesson plan pack and resources. The included division activities get children using grouping, sharing, and times tables knowledge. The included lesson plan and slides explain how to group pictured objects, or use physical objects, to solve number sentences. In either of the differentiated activities included, children will think about alternative ways the division number sentences can be expressed using multiplication. 

#Lesson4MultiplicationandDivisionFacts

In this lesson plan pack for Year 2, children use multiplication and division facts to help them understand, solve and write division number sentences. The resources include division games, differentiated worksheets and a slideshow with simple explanations of methods and challenging questions for children to consider. Through either of the included activities, children will solve division number sentences using their knowledge of doubles and halves. They will write number sentences and have the opportunity to make connections between different mathematical vocabulary, like half and divide by two.

#Lesson5DivisionWordProblems

Read, understand, solve and write division word problems with this Year 2 lesson planning pack, slides and resources. Having looked at how to tackle simple division word problems during the teaching input, children will then be challenged to check their answers using methods of their choice and explain what they have done using appropriate mathematical vocabulary.

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Curriculum Objectives covered

• Year 2 - calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and division within the multiplication tables and write them using the multiplication (×), division (÷) and equals (=) signs
• Year 2 - solve problems involving multiplication and division, using materials, arrays, repeated addition, mental methods, and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts