Following exercises give adequate practice for grade 3 students in dividing numbers with single digits.
Division With Single Digits
Gertrude is a girl who is very frightened about Mathematics. She loved languages, and scored well in language tests. Being scared of Mathematics, Gertrude did not do any Maths homework, and did not practice solving any Maths problems at home. She was scared of Mathematics in general. Especially arithmetic. Especially division. So, her Mathematics teacher taught her some fun facts about division. Gertrude thought that these division facts were very useful, so she shared the information with her friends who were also finding division difficult. The following are those fun facts.
- What is the answer if you divide a number by zero? The answer is always zero.
- What is the answer if you divide a number by the same number? The answer is always 1.
- You might have already guessed that division is multiplication done backwards. The dividend (the number being divided) will always be the product of the number by which the dividend is being divided (divisor) and the number that is the result of the division (quotient), added to the number that remains after division (remainder).
- If the last digit of a whole number is 0,2,4,6, or 8, it will be divisible by 2. Cool, isn’t it? This is a very useful division fact to remember.
- Any whole number can be divided by 3 if the sum of the digits can be divided by 3. Now that is something very useful for you.
8 ÷ 2 = …………. |
21 ÷ 3 = …………. |
66 ÷ 2 = …………. |
Answer Scheme
8 ÷ 2 = 4 |
21 ÷ 3 = 7 |
66 ÷ 2 = 33 |