Video Transcript
Divide into three groups. 33 divided by three equals
what.
In the picture, we can see a number
that’s been modeled out of base 10 blocks. And when we read the instruction,
divide into three groups, it’s this number that it’s talking about. It’s a number made from three 10s
and three ones. It’s the number 33. And we can write what we need to do
here in a number sentence. 33 divided by three equals
what. Because our number 33 has been
modeled for us in base 10 blocks, it’s already being broken up into its 10s and
ones. And because there are three of
each, hopefully you can see it’s going to be quite easy to split them up.
Let’s divide our 10s first of
all. 10, 20, 30. We’ve got one 10 in each group. 30 divided by three is 10. Now let’s divide our ones
blocks. One, two, three. Three divided by three equals
one. Each of our groups has one 10 and
one one. We’ve divided 33 by three by
modeling it using place value blocks, then dividing the tens and the ones
separately. 33 divided by three equals 11.
