Maths Subject Enrichment
Maths Subject Enrichment
Maths Subject Enrichment
Division is the opposite of multiplying. When we know a multiplication fact we can find a division fact:
Example: 3 × 5 = 15, so 15 / 5 = 3.
Also 15 / 3 = 5.
Why? Well, think of the numbers in rows and columns like in this illustration:
Multiplication... ...Division
3 groups of 5 make 15... ...so 15 divided by 3 is 5
and also:
Composing
So 349 is composed of 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 9 ones, in other words:
300 + 40 + 9 ⇒ 349
"Composing"
Decomposing
Decomposing is when we break the number apart:
349 ⇒ 300 + 40 + 9
"Decomposing"
Integers = { ..., -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... }