Long division at home

This week, I was determined to learn how to do long division. It's quite weird at first. But when you get the hang of it, it's quite straight-forward.

Here is an example. What is 4698 divided by 3?

Well, there are many ways to do this.

This first is to pick up a calculator and type in 4598÷3. But that's too easy!!!

The second way is to try to guess it. But you'll probably be wrong:)

There is another way which is suppppppper fun if you love long division or math! You go like this:

3⟌4698

Here are the steps:

a) First divide 4/3. The answer is 1 with remainder 1 (for example: 1R1).
You then put the first 1 above the 4, and the second 1 in “superscript” to the left of the 5.

1

3⟌41698

b) Then you divide 16/3. The answer is 5 with remainder 1 (for example: 5R1).
You then put the first 5 above the 16 and the 1 in  “superscript” to the left of the 9.
Do you get the pattern now? If you don’t read it again.

1 5

3⟌416198

c) Now you divide 19/3. The answer is 6R1. Let us put that in now.

1 5 6

3⟌4161918

d) Now you divide 18/3, which is EXACTLY 6!! (That was a fluke to get it without a remainder).

1 5 6 6

3⟌4161918

e) So what’s the answer?! IT’S 1566 !!!! WOW! Now you can check it on your calculator.

Back to School

I love coming back to school for a lot of reasons like friends, learning, sports ect. This is why I'm going to share why I like coming back to school!

The next thing I like about coming back to school is learning: I love learning here because there is so much to do. Instead of a boring old home, I get to work in a classroom which is very lucky.  The last thing I like about learning is that you have classmates you can work with, there are no classmates in lockdown. When you get help you ask a friend

My first reason why I like coming back to school is friends: I have been seeing friends on the beach and when I’m biking, but here at school I never have to bike or run on the beach they are already there! You just have to find them in the school area and there he/she is (except if you or your friend are sick). I also like it because you don’t have to stay home and get BORED in front of the computer and work for six hours.

The last thing is sports: I love playing sports at the end of the day playing annihilation, bull rush, and much more! I also can’t wait until Interschool athletics and other sports coming up. The other thing I like about sports is that we have morning tea and lunch we get to play around and that makes us have a lot of fun and get our energy out so we can have a break from our minds and get working after that!