A Conversation About Division

For this week's assignment, I tackled podcasting.  I now have great respect for sound men because this was harder than it seems.  The following podcast is a conversation with my friend Sue Harding.  She and I often have math ed conversations but this one is much shorter - about 6 minutes - and slightly scripted.  The questions we discussed are:

                   1.  What is division?
                   2.  What does the Montana Common Core say about division?
                   3.  Is it important to teach long division?
I admit that I don't have all the answers but I hope you enjoy our conversation.

What is division?

                                    

 Here are two pencasts that will give you more information about what was discussed in the podcast.

Division Models                                                                                Partial Quotients Strategy

 

5th Grade Division Strategies

If you are interested in better quality Math podcasts, the MathGrad is highly entertaining.  I'll post the link in Awesome Links.