Strategy
|Strategy: Hands on long division using skittles |
|Appropriate Grade Level: 5th grade – 8th grade |
|Procedures/Steps: |
|Materials: Skittles, color-coded numeral cards, and base ten blocks. |
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|Skittles are colored green for the ones place (named green foot soldier), blue for the tens place (named blue decurion), and red |
|for the hundreds place (named red centurion). They are used for the divisor. |
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|Color-coded numeral cards are arranged so that they can easily be chosen to form the dividend. |
|Example of the layout of numeral cards: |
|[pic] |
|Base ten blocks are also laid out to form the dividend. |
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|Students begin by obtaining numeral cards and base ten blocks for the dividend. When given the dividend they should display the |
|numeral cards and base ten blocks as pictured below. |
|[pic] |
|Then they form the divisor using skittles. The skittles should be spread out so that the base ten blocks can fit behind them. |
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|Begin with the highest place value of the dividend and distribute the base ten blocks behind the skittles. |
|This is an example of sorted base |
|ten blocks behind skittles: |
|The students now look at what has been given to one green skittle (foot soldier). That value is the quotient. |
|Comments and/or tips: |
|Skittles can be painted clothes pins, unfinished wooden people that have been painted, colored flat marbles, appropriate colored |
|pawns, or games pieces. |
|While students are sorting the base ten blocks they could be solving the problem by writing the long division form. |
|Source: |
|Bennett, P. & Rule, A. C. (2005, May). Hands-on long division with skittles for students with learning disabilities. Teaching |
|Exceptional Children Plus, 1(5). Retrieved May 13, 2007, from |
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