Explore A - Lesson 4.4 Division on a Number Line
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For this lesson you will need the open number line mat found in the lesson materials.
Part 1
How do you show 4 x 5 on a number line?
Answer: 4 jumps of 5
Part 2
How would we represent this on a number line?
12 represents our total. So mark 12 on the right of your number line.
3 represents how many are in each group. So this will be our "jump" size. We will jump backward in lengths of 3.
So mark 12 and take 1 jump backward of 3.
The label of "1" represents 1 group.
Continue jumping backward in groups of 3, until no more groups of 3 can be taken.
How many jumps did it take?
This took 4 jumps of 3. This means .
Part 3
Let's model this on the number line.
We start at 42 on the right side of the number line. Then we will take jumps of 6 until we cannot take anymore.
How does this number line example look like multiplication? What would the multiplication equation be?
Part 4
Another way to divide using a number line is by counting up or repeated addition.
Because multiplication is the inverse of division, the division equation can be thought of as ? X 6 = 42 or "How many jumps of 6 is 42?".
This would look like: