Division is figure-out-able! In this episode Pam and Kim discuss the most sophisticated strategy for division and precursors that students can begin developing in the fourth grade!
Talking Points:

An Equivalent Ratios Problem String
Precursor relationships
Scaling up or Scaling down
What makes Equivalent Ratios the most sophisticated strategy for division
4th grade can begin to reason about division using the "bigger, smaller thing" to reason about division
5th grade can begin to reason about equivalence
Relational thinking

See Ep 64 and 132 for more on equivalent ratios!
Checkout mathisfigureoutable.com/relational-thinking for free exercises to develop the equivalent ratios strategy..

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Ep 175: The Most Sophisticated Division Strategy