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Do you need some help in teaching kids division? Choosing the thing that you and your kids love to play with at home will be the most effective. In our case, Lego is always the most preferred tool used, and you most probably have seen lots of different videos on our channel that depends on it.
Using the right vocabulary in math is the most important thing because that's how the meaning is delivered to the child and how they eventually get the chance to understand what they are supposed to do with the mathematical operation they are facing.
When it comes to division and depending on Lego, we have to teach the kids that sharing equally is the same as dividing and this could be taught through sharing the Lego blocks equally between two people or two sides. In our case, we have divided the Lego board to two halves and separated the blocks between them as if there are two persons in the game.
Lego is one of the most useful methods used because it is not just about separating the blocks haphazardly, but it is also about building towers out of them, which is done for a reason. When the kid comes to the part of building towers out of the Lego blocks while dividing them equally between the two sides, he/she will eventually get the chance to compare the two towers together in order to know whether they have done it correctly or else not - of course this could be also done through counting as well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSMd8kMHIHo).
Always teach the child according to his/her own personal interests, if they are more interested in the little monsters then get them to share these monsters instead of the Lego, the most important thing is to encourage the child to share these items with a brother, a friend or even with you, but they have to share the items and in an equal way.
Using this way to teach the kids division and letting them understand that it is the same as sharing, parents will be also getting closer to introducing remainders very early to the child which will be also easier to deliver through using the Lego blocks because that's how they will manage to see that the two towers are not equal and thus a block will be removed from one and leave it aside for the moment.
Division might be a little bit more difficult when compared to the other mathematical operations that are found out there, such as addition, subtraction and multiplication, but kids will get the chance to realize that these are all easy ones when they are receiving the vocabulary that will make it all appear easier for them, such as the case of using "sharing" when teaching the kids all about division (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVM8iQMaZN8).
Choosing the thing that the kid is most interested in, playing with the kids, making some challenges for them; these are all the different tips which we would give to parents homeschooling their kids and trying to teach them different mathematical operations and give them the needed push forward.
The old methods of teaching the child math are also helpful but in order to make learning at home a lot more exciting to the child, you have to attract them to it all and this usually happens through games. Also when you teach the child something, you should let them practice it every so often and this will be done through letting them do a specific calculation that you might suddenly come up with during the day to see whether they could replay what they have already learned before or else will be forgetting it all.
Vocabulary is important, but leave your child to choose the term that he/she is more satisfied with, and always try to choose those everyday words that would describe the mathematical operations they are dealing with because that's how they will manage to solve it all and know what they are supposed to do.
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Welcome to Learning More. Today we are going to talk about division and we're going to talk about
your child's division journey right through from early division up until they're actually using
very formal pencil and paper methods. Now division can be one of those scary concepts, sometimes
children see it as very difficult and sometimes parents do as well but I'm going to show you some
really fun practical ways of exploring division and really look at those methods that children
are using today within the curriculum to really help support you as parents and see what they're
actually doing. The methods haven't actually changed that much, it's maybe just the vocabulary
and there's maybe a few steps in there that are pre-steps in there that maybe as I knew when I was
at school I didn't actually do. So we're going to start with around five-year-olds, so you're talking
around year one stage, P2 stage and this is when children will be introduced to division. Now they
won't necessarily be introduced to the term division at this stage, it will be more focused
on the idea of sharing and perhaps having further on. So at this stage it's all very very practical,
you want to give your child really concrete resources to be able to use and to really, it's
all really about that discussion, really getting that lovely basis of that concept developed and
really allowing them to actually just practically have a go. So I would tend to use things that your
child is interested in and in our house we absolutely love Lego and I'm sure you've seen
lots of Lego videos from Learning Mole and I would actually just go through that very very
practical sharing. You've got some Lego blocks and you need to share them between two people.
So I've just made a little Lego plate with a little divisor in here and I've got my blocks and
I'm just going to basically ask the child to physically share those blocks and it can be as
one for you, one for you, one for you, one for you, one for you, one for you and on and on until they've
shared out all the blocks to each side of the Lego plate and then what you want to do is actually ask
them to count and make sure that each person has got an equal number because we really want to get
that idea across that if you're sharing it needs to be equal. So one two three four five six seven
eight one two three four five six seven eight so eight each. So I wouldn't even talk about you've
got 16 or whatever at the beginning I would actually just get them to share them out and
that would be your first step. The next step would be that you might actually want to give them the
number and say you've got 16 blocks you need to share them between two people how many will they
get each. There you are starting to introduce that idea of the vocabulary, you're starting to introduce
the idea of the operation although you're still not using the word divide if you want to use the
word divide instead of share that's absolutely fine because it's really good to I think immerse
children in mathematical vocabulary very early so you will tell them you've got 18 blocks can you
share them between two people. Now I'm just going to show you a different method for this and I
actually this is why I love Lego so I would get them to share so they're one each do their one
one each one each and this time I would actually get them to build their blocks up and you'll see
the reason for this once they are shared obviously you will probably take a little bit more time
and this is this is why I love Lego for this because immediately the children can see that
they are equal shares the towers are exactly the same height if one isn't they know they
haven't shared equally so that is a really nice way of comparing equal numbers as well
so Lego is really really good for that but do lean to your child's interest so if your child
likes little monsters get them to share their monsters and say right share these between you
and your brother share these between you and your friend share those between you and me
and really get them to get that idea of sharing and it has to be equal. This is also another way
of introducing remainders very early because if you've got an uneven number so if I take one block
away what you can say is look these aren't even so it's not fair so this one will have to be left
over for later on so again you're starting to get that idea of remainders in there but all very
practical and all very visual. I also find that food works very well my children love to play with
food so if you've got sweets or grapes or Cheerios do sharing activities with those and just really
make it as practical and as simple as you possibly can.
