Introducing Bus Stop Method Of Division With Place Value Counters

Hi, I'm Zoe and in this video we're going to be looking at short division method, commonly known as the bus stop method, called the bus stop because it looks like a bus stop. Let's have a look at how this method can support our division. So our dividend, the number we're dividing into goes inside our bus stop. Our divisor number we're dividing by goes outside our bus stop. A handy thing to remember here for the pupils is we always start with the person at the front of the queue. So we're going to have a look at putting four into five. Now we've got to remember here it's not five we're actually dividing into, it's 50. So we're saying how many lots of four go into 50? I've put the place value counters up as well just to support this method. So we've got our 56 in our place value counters. So we're going to divide our tens into our four groups and we can see there is one 10 in each group, so we can put that into our bus stop. We're left with a 10. We can't split that as a 10. So we're going to exchange now. Exchange our 10 for 10 ones. So now we have 16 ones, so we can put our one there to show our 16. We're going to do the same thing again. How many fours in 16? Hopefully your pupils will know their times tables and get there quickly. But this method using our place value counters just helps to support them with that visual method so that we can get there. Relating our actual numbers in the place value counters to the numbers we have here. And we can see there are four in each group and four fours make 16. Looking at our bus stop method, the answer we find on the top. So how many fours are in 56? The answer is 14. And that's how we use the bus stop method to help us with div.