Division

Out of four fundamental math operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, division is regarded as the most difficult by many math learners. The good news is there are many free division worksheets to help you practice division. Once you get the hang of it, division is not that hard.

When you first learn about division, you often learn about long division. There are many free division worksheets with long division problems. There are even long division worksheets alone. The more division worksheets you do, the better you will get at doing division.

What is division?

First of all the symbol for division is:

But there are a few ways to show that a number is divided by another number as follows. Let's have as a division example, 6 divided by 2. We can write this as:

So, you can use the division symbol between 6 and 2, or put 6 at the top and 2 at the bottom separated by a line or 6 on the left and 2 on the right separated by a slanted line.

So, what does a division mean? When you divide a number by another number, say divide 6 by 2, you are asking how many times 2 can go into 6. Let's see an illustration of division.

In this illustration of division, there are 6 balls in the top row and 2 balls in the bottom. To divide 6 by 2 is to ask how many times, the 2 balls below can fit into the 6 balls above. The answer is 3. As you can see, you can group 6 balls into 3 groups of 2 balls.

So whenever you are solving a division problem. Think of how many times the smaller number can be fitted into the larger number and if there is any number left, either call it a remainder or keep dividing into decimals. For example, if there were 7 balls instead of 6. Then 7 divided by 2 is 3 with 1 as a remainder or 3.5 as the answer.