The purpose of this activity is to support students applying their knowledge of division to solve equal sharing problems. Place value is recognised as a useful structure for partitioning the number being divided (the dividend). This is the basis of written algorithms (step by step procedures) and allows for the number being divided to be extended beyond the range of known basic facts.
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