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By NCteacher

The Maharaja's Tasks is a must! It is a kinisthetic way of teaching beginning division. If you google it, I am sure that you can find the program for purchase. Here is one of the initial activities:

1.) Rope off an
area of your room and post a sign "Holding Pen"

2.) Give the kids one minute to think of an animal that lives in the jungle.
3.) Have them start moving silently around the room the way their animal would move.

4.) You call out, "Make groups of ___"

5.) The kids must for a group of that number, and immediately sit down.

6.)The kids who can't be in a group

go into the holding pen as the "remainder"

7.) On chart paper, record the division problem as a number sentence and as ___ groups of ____ with a remainder of ____.

8.) Continue playing- it is a great time to get the kids to discover that the remainder can never be bigger than or equal to the number of "animals" in a group.

9.) As a challenge, you can tell the kids how many groups you want- they have to figure out how many kids are in each group.

I have used this for 5 years to teach division and it is fantastic. You can make it as difficult or simple as you want. It looks great for an observation, since you are addressing a couple of different learning styles and 100% of the kids will be engaged and learning. Good luck!