Today in maths we were learning how to take unequal division and make it equal!

We used the context of money to help us understand this.

For example – a shopkeeper has £5 to pay his 2 staff members in total. Normally we used to say that this was £2 each with £1 left over, but now we split the £1 into two 50p which is 0.5 in decimals.

The answer is therefore 2.50 each.

We can now apply this to bigger numbers

E.G. 3,697 divided by 2 is 1,848.5.

By Mr McMullan