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🧮 6th Grade · Math6.NS.B.2Unit 5: Decimals, factors & multiples

Long division

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🎯 Objective: Students fluently divide multi-digit numbers with the standard algorithm.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Practice.
  3. Estimate to check.
  4. Exit: 8,526 ÷ 42.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

6.NS.B.2

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Fluently compute with multi-digit decimals and whole numbers
  • Find GCF and LCM

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Dividing fractions📚 All 6th Grade skills🎮 Learning games⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Decimals, factors & multiples”

  1. Long division
  2. Decimal operations
  3. Greatest common factor
  4. Least common multiple

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