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Elementary Mathematics

Lesson 86

Short Division with Three Digits

Share by place value

Short division

156 ÷ 3 worked place by place: 52.

Short division

156 ÷ 31 hundred cannot be shared by 3 → 15 tens15 tens ÷ 3 = 5 tens6 ones ÷ 3 = 2 ones= 52
Short division.
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Conceptual model: a simplified teaching picture.

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156 counters, as blocks, are shared among 3 groups.

156 ÷ 3 = ?

If a place cannot be shared, exchange it into the next place.