Use short division when the hundreds digit is smaller than the divisor | Maths

Starter quiz

2 is the __________.
- product
- dividend
- divisor ✓
- quotient
Select the statements that are true.
- 6 × 3 > 3 × 6
- 11 × 1 < 11 × 0
- 20 × 1 = 1 × 20 ✓
- 13 × 0 < 1 × 13 ✓
- 4 × 1 < 4 × 11 ✓
30 tens can be regrouped as ______ hundreds.
- '3' ✓
Look at the short division. You can make ______ groups of 3 ones from the 15 ones in the dividend.
- '5' ✓
Which calculations will require two or more instances of regrouping?
- A
- B
- C ✓
Use short division to solve this problem: Izzy is packing 371 t-shirts to sell at a funfair. She packs them equally into three large boxes. How many T-shirts will be in each box?
- '123' ✓

Identify the multiples of 3.
- 3 ✓
- 9 ✓
- 15 ✓
- 16
- 21 ✓
6 hundreds can be regrouped for ___ tens.
- 6
- 60 ✓
- 66
- 600
If you were to divide the number by 9, which of these would require regrouping?
- 900
- 800 ✓
- 909
Choose the correct short division for this equation: 325 ÷ 5.
- A
- B
- C ✓
Use short division to calculate 764 ÷ 8 = ______. Write your answer in numeral form, using r if there is a remainder.
- '95 r 1' ✓
Look at the short division, what is the missing number?
- '6' ✓

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If the hundreds digit is smaller than the divisor then it is exchanged for tens and included with the tens digit
If the 100s digit is smaller than the divisor then no partial product is recorded above the 100s digit of the dividend

Pupils may confuse the terminology of dividend and divisor. Pupils may regroup the incorrect amount.

Ensure pupils can identify the dividend and the divisor. Use language of unitisation to correct any place value misconceptions.

Dividend - What we are dividing.
Divisor - What we are dividing by.
Quotient - The result after division has taken place.
Regroup / regrouping - The process of unitising and exchanging between place values.