Whole Number: Division

• In mathematics, especially in elementary arithmetic, division (÷) is an arithmetic operation. 
• Another basic view of division is sharing equally.

Example:
Danesse has 3 friends. She has 12 cookies to share with them. How many cookies does each of the four people get? 

• Danesse probably shared her cookies by saying one for you, one for you, so on. Thus the 12 cookies are shared equally by four people, and each gets three cookies.  
• Or, you might say that the 12 cookies have been partitioned into four sets of the same size.

Exercises:

1.  21 ÷ 3 = ________
2.  24 ÷ 4 = ________
3.  42 ÷ 7 = ________
4.  32 ÷ 8 = ________
5.  24 ÷ 8 = ________
6.  54 ÷ 6 = ________
7.  72 ÷ 6 = ________
8.  27 ÷ 9 = ________
9.  72 ÷ 9 = ________
10.  56 ÷ 7 = ________