Year 5 Divide with Remainders Maths Challenge

Teacher Specific Information

This Year 5 Divide with Remainders Maths Challenge checks pupils’ understanding of dividing with remainders and aims to develop their problem solving ability. Pupils will use division to sort the number of animal enclosures into ‘possible’ or ‘impossible’ based on given criteria.

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National Curriculum Objective

Calculation – multiplication and division
(5C7b) 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