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5th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY)
Course: 5th grade (Eureka Math/EngageNY) > Unit 1
Lesson 6: Topic F: Dividing decimals- Division strategies for decimal quotients
- Divide decimals by whole numbers visually
- Divide whole numbers by decimals visually
- Divide whole numbers with decimal quotients: 5÷2
- Divide whole numbers to get a decimal (1-digit divisors)
- Divide decimals by whole numbers
- Strategies for dividing by tenths
- Divide whole numbers by decimals
- Multiply and divide decimals by 10
- Multiplying and dividing decimals by 10, 100, 1000
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Strategies for dividing by tenths
Sal uses equivalent fractions to divide both whole numbers and decimals by tenths.
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- Does anyone else think that dividing with decimals confusing.(7 votes)
- There is another trick. You can multiply both numbers by 10, or 100 etc.
In zhe example above 0.8÷0.25, we can multiply all by 100 and get:
80÷25.(12 votes)
- So 1.2 is like 12,right? I understand it, but why is it like that? Because 1 is not 12 so that means 1.2 is not 12. Because you take away the decimal then it is 12.(5 votes)
- Because when you divide by a decimal, you remove move the decimal place to the left however many digits until it is a whole number. Then you divide the number and move the decimal to the right however many times you moved it to the left.
e.g. 20/0.5 20/5= 4.0 = 40
But when you divide a decimal by a decimal, you move the decimal to the left until it is a whole number on both numbers, then after you divide you move it to the right for the combined number of times you moved to the left.
Hope this helps :)(9 votes)
- Math is good for your brain(6 votes)
- Why / how is 4.2/0.3 the same as 42/3?(4 votes)
- It's a matter of moving the decimal points.
If you move the decimal point on 4.2 to the right it becomes 42, but you also have to do the same thing on the denominator so 0.3 becomes 3. Put them together and you have 42/3
If you're not sure, divide 4.2 by 0.3 and then divide 42 by 3. You'll find that you get the same answer.(5 votes)
- When dividing decimals, what is the reason for removing the decimals and making them whole numbers? If I were to divide a tenth by a hundredth (e.g., 0.2/0.15), would I multiply by 10/100? Can and should the decimals always be removed when dividing numbers that have decimals? What is the reason for removing the decimals?(4 votes)
- When multiplying the decimal moves the right because the numbers value increases. But when you divide your decimal goes to the left because your number decreases(3 votes)
- I need help can someone please help me? I don't get what I have to do. Can someone that knows how to do this help me?(4 votes)
- Yes, of course. So for example, you have 2.5 divided by 5. The first thing to do is to convert 2.5 to a whole number by multiplying by ten. But of course, what you do to one number you have to do to another. So 2.5 is now 25 and 5 is now 50. Divide them and you will get 2.
Any other questions?(1 vote)
- I need help can someone please help me?I don't really understand What to do.(5 votes)
- how do you divide sad sad sad(3 votes)
- does anybody think this video is boring(3 votes)
- lets say that your teacher assined a lesson about this video and well you did it but then your teacher asks you to show what you learned and you still have no clue what it's about and everybody is looking at you like did she even watch the video? and then what your thinking is oh my gosh what do i do? and then the teacher speaks up and says well...were waiting so can you maybe show me how to do this?(3 votes)
Video transcript
- [Instructor] Let's
do a few more examples of thinking of strategies
for dividing decimals. In the future, we're gonna come up with a more systematic way of doing it, but it's really important to come up with some of these strategies because it gives you an
intuition for dividing decimals. And frankly, it's an easier thing to do, especially when you're trying to eventually divide
decimals in your head. So let's say we want
to figure out what six divided by 0.2, or 2/10, is. Pause the video, and see
if you can figure it out. So we've already explored
multiple strategies. One strategy is, well, let's
express this as a fraction. This is the same thing as 6 over 0.2, And maybe we can multiply the
numerator and the denominator by some value so we're not
dealing with decimals anymore. And, if you wanna get rid of
the decimal in the bottom, we have 2/10, well we can
multiply the bottom by 10. But if we multiply the bottom by 10 we need to multiply the numerator by 10. So essentially we're multiplying this fraction by 10/10,
which is just multiplying it by 1, so it doesn't change its value. So this is going to be
equal to 60, so 6, 0, over 2/10 times 10, let's go and move the decimal one to the right, and that's just going to be equal to 2. Now what is 60 divided by 2? Well, 60 divided by 2 is
fairly straightforward, 6 divided by 2 is 3 so 60 divided by 2 is going to be equal to 30. So that's 30. And so we're done. Now another strategy is
you could've thought of all of these numbers in terms of tenths. You could've said this is
6, do that orange color, You could've said this
is 6 tenths divided by, oh, let me be careful, this is 60 tenths, 6, is 60 tenths, 60 tenths divided by 2 tenths is equal to, well if 60 is something
and I were to divide it into groups of two of that something I would have 30 groups. That's going to be equal to 30. Let's do another example. This will be our most involved one, before we really try to show you the standard way of dividing decimals. Let's say we wanted to compute 4.2, or 4 and two tenths,
divided by 3 tenths. Pause the video and see if
you can figure that out. Well you've already seen multiple techniques for tackling this. It never hurts to try to
write this as a fraction. So this, you could write it as 4.2 divided by 3 tenths. And now we could try to
get rid of the decimals. Now the best way to do
that I could imagine, I have tenths here, I have tenths here, If I multiply the numerator
and the denominator by 10, that might help out a lot,
because the numerator, this would move the
decimal one to the right, so the numerator I would get 42, 4.2 times 10 is 42,
over 3 tenths times 10, well that is going to be equal to 3. And so what is 42 divided by 3? Well, there's multiple ways to do that, you can try to do it in your head, or you just try to actually do a little bit of medium long division, this shouldn't be too long. So let's see, 3 goes into 4 one time, 1 times 3 is 3, subtract, 4 minus 3 is, oh why did I write 43, I knew something was fishy, 42. 3 goes into 42, my
brain is malfunctioning. Alright, 3 goes into 4
one time, 1 times 3 is 3, you subtract 4 minus 3
is 1, bring down the 2, 3 goes into 12 four times. So this is equal to 14. And so this one right over here is going to be equal to 14. And just like we saw in the last example, you could also think of this as 42 tenths, divided by 3 tenths, in which case 42 tenths, 42 of something divided into groups of 3 of that something,
you're gonna end up with 14 groups, you're gonna end up with 14. So hopefully you appreciate these ideas, express it as a fraction,
see if you can multiply the numerator and
denominator by the same value so maybe the decimals get eliminated, maybe you can think of these numbers in terms of tenths, or hundredths, and then think of it that way. And any of these combinations are gonna be effective strategies, or hopefully effective strategies, for dividing decimals or dividing numbers where the quotient might be a decimal. And in future videos we're gonna learn a more standard systematic way of doing it but this is always valuable. I still, if someone walked up to me on the street and said
what's 4.2 divided by 0.3, this is how I would actually do it. I would say okay that's the same thing as 42 divided by 3, and then I would say okay, 3
goes into 42, let's see, 3 times 10 is 30, and
then 3 times 4 is 12, yeah that would be 14 times. That's how my brain would do it if I was trying to do it in my head.