How do i divide? can someone explain for me how i divide ?

Question

please...

Answer 1

30 divided by 3..... how many times does 3 go into 30? = 10 just think how many times the number will fit.

Answer 2

You have 8 sweets and there are 4 people to divide them between. So you divide the total number of sweets ( 8 ) by the number of people ( 4 )You have to find out how many 4`s there are in 8 that is called dividing . There are two fours in eight, so the people have two sweets each.

Answer 3

Well, say you are trying to figure out 12 divided by 4.

Division is really showing how many items are in a pile if there are a certain number of items split into a certain number of equal piles.

Find any bag of small items (such as Skittles) and take out 12. Split them into 4 equal piles and count the number of Skittles. In this case, there are 3 in each pile, so 12 divided by 4 is 3.

If you want to make this faster, get a copy of a division table and memorize them. Later you will be able to recall divisions easily.

Answer 4

Can I do it with sweets? (that's how I learnt, I'm not trying to patronise you!) You have 100 sweets and 4 friends, you want to divide your sweets equally between all of you, that is your 4 friends and yourself, making 5 people.
____
5) 100

So, go along the units - 5 into 1, doesn't go, 5 into 10 makes 2 (2 x 5 = 10) so you put your 2 above the 1st 0, and then 5 into 0 makes 0, so it makes 20.
__20__
5) 100

Is that ok? E-mail me if you want me to go over it a bit more, [e-mail]

Answer 5

I don't know how old you are, but if you are in School now, I bet you would have been taught the 'grouping' method.

Think - ' groups of'...

Imagine 62 smarties....If you are sharing them between 4 people, how many will each have..

62
- 40 ..... 4 x 10 (4 groups of 10 smarties,
___ each person has 10 so far...)
22 (left)
- 20 ....... 4 x 5 ( 4 groups of 5 smarties)
____
2 left over

So the answer is 15 smarties for each person, Remainder 2


For an alternative - far better explanation, with moving pictures - try

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/maths/number/07_act.shtml

Answer 6

Long division algorithms are based on iterative correction.

That is, x/y is done by finding an approximate answer q1.
The real answer is q=x/y=q1+correction.
So correction = [x - y*q1]/y.
I assume you already know how to subtract and multiply and add.
So now, after making your guess q1, you do * and - and you've
reduced the problem of finding the correction to a SIMPLER
division problem (simpler because x-y*q1 is smaller than x,
at least if your guess was at all decent). So now you do the simpler problem by making a guess q2, and so on. The final answer is
q1+q2+q3+...
where it either goes on forever, or stops because some guess was exact and so did not need to be corrected (which tends to happen
when it gets simple enough - then easy to write exact answer)
or stops because you got tired and decided you have enough accuracy already.

Answer 7

learn your times table first and then dividing is easy, get your mum to explain

Answer 8

for dividing you multiply by the reciprocal

Answer 9

I doubt that anyone who writes that 'it (division) was explained in school' understood the process...

division is only 'obvious' for someone who doesn't understand how it works...

Answer 10

if i chop your head down the middle. it would be divided by two..if i chped your willy down the middle..it would be divided by none..because you haven,t got one..its already been divided in your head..