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The first step is learning what it means to divide. Why is it done? How does it work?

Explain to your child that you have 100 jellybeans and you want to give them away to 5 children.

How do you make it a fair split? You could ask.

We need to know how we can split the 100 jellybeans in to 5 groups for each child.

Well we could go around the circle and give 1 over and over until we get the result. Or we could use a calculator to split it 5 ways evenly.

100 split (or divided) in to 5 groups is 20 we will find.

So we know we can give 20 jellybeans to each child ad know its right.

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