ORIGO Big Book – Year 1: A Bear’s Share

Two different models can be used to represent division: partition (sharing) and quotition (grouping). A Bears Share introduces the partition model for division.

These whole-class activities provide students with the opportunity to:

listen to a story about splitting a dividend into equal groups
use materials to act out sharing situations
use the Teaching Tool to act out sharing situations
split a dividend between a different number of divisors
find division number facts
write a story about sharing into equal groups