Age for learning division in schools

[schmee]

I wondered at what stage your DCs started to learn division in school. Are there guidelines in the National Curriculum as to when this should start? I'm looking for average for normal classes, not ages when genius MN dc were able to do it at home!

begins in reception learning how to share objects into sets
in Y1 children will be doubling and halving and sharing
Y2 children will learn that dividing is the opposite operation to multiplication

DD is in Year 3 and they have just done what she calls bus stop division with remainders. But in Year 2 they learnt all their times tables as divisions as well - eg. how many 6s in 24 etc.

DD has just started division with remainders this week, she's in y2. She's been taught "the people method" - ie share the number between x people, how many are left over.

DD is in reception and has just started doing share these beads out between 2 pots type questions at school but I don't think they've used the word division at all.

DS is year 5 and I don't remember him actually calling it division until year 2, although they had already done some stuff on sharing things out by then.

DD is year 5 she started doing recognisable division in year 1, but the word was only really used last year.

End of y2 they really start to learn the concept, ime. They divide graph paper into so many parts, for instance (colouring in).

DD is in Y2 and it is part of this term's maths. They start with multiplication first and then division.

Thank you everyone. That's helpful to know.

bus stop method division is y4 for simple ie 6 into 344, year 5 for long ie 24 into 344.

Year 2 - division with remainders. (2 times table so far, but will move on to 3, 4 and 5)

Year 3 - moves on to 6, 7, 8 and 9

Year 4 - seem to be concentrating more on area, volume, percentages and fractions so far.

Hi Schmee:

This may help: www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239129/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_Mathematics.pdf

this is the new national curriculum for maths (published Sept 2013) and will be in place from September 2014.

You can see right from Y1 they are introducing concepts of division - but in stages (so maybe halving is understood or sharing out/ then possible using multplication fact knowledge to cope with simple problems - so 300 divided by 3 = 100 is relatively easy because you know 3 divided by 3 is 1. I suspect from this point (Y2/ Y3) it gets more complicated and depends on how enamored of chunking a school is or is not.

Y3 new curriculum for division:

Pupils develop efficient mental methods, for example, using commutativity and associativity (for example, 4 × 12 × 5 = 4 × 5 × 12 = 20 × 12 = 240) and multiplication and division facts (for example, using 3 × 2 = 6, 6 ÷ 3 = 2 and 2 = 6 ÷ 3) to derive related
facts (for example, 30 × 2 = 60, 60 ÷ 3 = 20 and 20 = 60 ÷ 3).

Pupils develop reliable written methods for multiplication and division, starting with calculations of two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers and progressing to the formal written methods of short multiplication and division.

Y4 new curriculum for division:

Pupils practise to become fluent in the formal written method of short multiplication and short division with exact answers (see Mathematics Appendix 1 - last two pages of document I attached).

Y5 new curriculum for division:

divide numbers up to 4 digits by a one-digit number using the formal written method of short division and interpret remainders appropriately for the context

multiply and divide whole numbers and those involving decimals by 10, 100 and 1000

and Y6 new curriculum for division:

divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division, and interpret remainders as whole number remainders, fractions, or by rounding, as appropriate for the context

divide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit number using the formal written method of short division where appropriate, interpreting remainders according to the context

see Appendix 1 (pp 46-47) for calculation methods - at end of document.

HTH