This book, the 5th in the Framework Math series, covers the division facts within 100 up through long division. All the skills covered in the first 4 books of this series should be mastered before beginning this book so that students are completely comfortable and confident subitizing, composing, and decomposing numbers up to 100 and have a clear understanding of place value, as well as adding, subtracting, and multiplying whole numbers of all sizes. They should also be very familiar by this point with how to strategically use ten frames and a Rekenrek as tools to accomplish all these goals. In this book, that foundation will serve students well as they develop a deep understanding of, and fluency with, division.

Here students will discover fact family relationships as well as learn division strategies using area models, partial products, benchmark numbers, and the traditional U.S. algorithm. These strategies will help them see numbers as whole units and enable them to think intuitively through the division process, rather than seeing numbers as combinations of individual digits with sets of mysterious rules to follow. This approach that is grounded in number sense will help students retain and own the information and extend their understanding to more complex Mathematical problems, as well as see the overall cohesive, fluid nature of Math.

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