Being flexible about division

I recently saw a child trying to work out 45 divided by 5. They wrote: 5/4 45 saying, “Five into four is zero, remainder four. Five into forty-five is …” – and they didn’t know. Indeed, if they had known this, then perhaps they wouldn’t have been using this short-division method. The method was just...

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Main Author: Colin Foster
Format: Default Article
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/30067876.v1
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