Math Journals and Division

Today 4.2 students will be bringing home their Math Journals to share their learning with you.  We have been learning a lot about division recently in our math lessons.  Please talk to your child about the division strategies they use and what they do when they have remainders.  Please remember to bring the Math Journals back to school on Monday as we use them everyday!

Today we looked again at the conceptual understanding: Number operations can be modeled in a variety of ways. 

We looked at this when we were focusing on the number operation multiplication, but today we applied it to our conceptual understanding of the number operation division.

Look how many different ways 4.2 students can show their understanding of division!

Conceptual Understandings

We have been developing our understanding of mathematical concepts throughout the school year.  Recently, we have been looking at our understanding of the statement 'Number operations can be modeled in a variety of ways'.  We unpacked this statement and discovered that we can demonstrate our understanding of multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in many different ways. 

What are some of the ways that we can represent our understanding of multiplication?  Why is important to show our understanding in different ways?