Rules of Divisibility for Kids | Learn like Nastya
It's Kids Academy, and welcome back to our channel! Today we will learn rules of divisibility for kids. Still struggling with division? Can’t quite figure out your least common denominators? This list of divisibility strategies will speed up your fraction work and make those troublesome denominators a thing of the past.
Division is a practical concept that adults use all the time. Since we use it so nonchalantly we forget what it was like before we understood this basic concept. It can be frustrating when we try to help our students learn division because “they just don’t seem to get it”. That is completely true, they really don’t get it and neither did you until you spent years and years practicing.
Fun fact: the little division sign made up of a line sandwiched by two dots ÷ is called an obelus. The name came from the ancient Greek word for sharpened stick or dagger which would be used to split or divide any number of items into groups.
