Students used cuisenaire rods as a tool to visualize the math problems. I also started asking students to start thinking, " What times what gets me the closest to ___ , without going over?" I want students to start thinking of their multiplication facts/fact families to solve division problems , for cuisenaire rods are a tool to help us out at the beginning of this unit, but not to be relied on.
We'll continue simple division before moving on to 4th grade standard/expectation---long division , with and without remainders, with 4 dividends.
