Positive and Negative Numbers:
Division

Lesson Procedure:

Print the classroom lesson plan and worksheet questions (see below).

Lesson Excerpt:

“Today we are going to learn about dividing positive and negative numbers.”

First, can someone tell me what the word “division” means?

Take student answers and write them on the board. You are looking for students to talk about “splitting up”. Some students may use the word “divide”.

“Good, so division is about splitting things up. Now what is division the opposite of?”

Multiplication.

“Multiplication is about groups of things. So, you could say that division is about splitting up or dividing groups of things. When we are working with positive and negative numbers, division is still about splitting up groups of things. If you have 42/6, it is about 42 things being split up into 6 groups. When you solve this, then there are 7 items in each group.

The big difference with division of positive and negative numbers is that there are rules.

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