hi and welcome to basic division in this video you'll learn how to do simple
division for more complicated division you want to check out our later videos
division problems can be written in different ways sometimes you'll see them
written with this symbol like 6 divided by 3 other times you'll see them written
like this both of these means that the number 6 is
being divided by the number 3 for simple division problems you might see the
first symbol but for harder division problems you use the other symbol
division is the opposite of multiplication let's look at the simple
problem we've got here division is asking you how many items would be in
each group if we took that six and divided it into three groups the answer
is two what's 2 times 3 it's 6 you can check your work by multiplying the
answer
in Division we call the number under the division symbol the dividend the number
it's being divided by is the divisor in this problem 12 is the dividend and 2 is
the divisor the answer is called the quotient
what's the quotient in this problem
let's draw it out we have 12 apples we need to divide these into two roots how
many apples are in each group did you get 6 you're right remember you can
check your work because 6 times 2 is equal to 12
those problems were pretty easy the divisor divided evenly into the number
this 113 divided by two is a little harder you know that two times six is
equal to 12 and 2 times 7 is equal to 14 13 is one more than 12 and one less than
14
you might have figured out by now that two can go into thirteen six times since
two times six is equal to twelve but there is one left over we call that a
remainder the remainder is whatever is left over after we've gotten as close as
we can you can find the remainder by subtracting the product of the quotient
and the divisor from the dividend remember the product is what you get
when you multiply two numbers together the quotient is the answer to a division
problem and the divisor is the number you are dividing by remainders are
typically written with the letter R followed by the number the answer to 13
divided by 2 is 6 R 1
when you're unsure about the answer you might find it helpful to use a
multiplication chart let's try another problem what is 33 divided by 8 8 times
3 is 24 but that leads 9 what is 8 times 4 8
times 4 is 32 that's as close as you can get to 33 right let's subtract 32 from
33 we have 1 left over our answer is for our 1
you are now ready to practice on your own and play the division games come
back when you've mastered the basics and learn long division