Lesson of the Month for November 2024: Division Two Ways!

The FREE Brick Math Lesson of the Month for November 2024 comes from Brick Math Division.  It introduces two important concepts – division as grouping into equal sets, and division as repeated subtraction. To get this lesson, click here, and you’ll also get a new free Brick Math lesson every month after that. 

The lesson starts with pages from the Teacher Edition of Brick Math Division. First, the teacher models two set boxes and asks the students to divide the brick studs evenly into the two boxes. Then the teacher asks students to relate the division problem to multiplication, ensuring that students understand the relationship between division and multiplication. Finally, the teacher shows students how this same division problem can be viewed as repeated subtraction. In one short lesson, students are learning so much about what division means! The last two pages are from the Student Edition of Division, and they are used by students to answer questions in writing as they work through the lesson.

This technique is why Brick Math works so well to help students who haven’t learned through more traditional curricula. Students build brick models, then draw those models and answer questions explaining why the math works. It’s a proven process, moving from concrete to abstract, that really helps students understand math.

The Brick Math curriculum is divided into 13 separate content areas: 
Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Basic Fractions, Basic Measurement, Fraction Multiplication, Fraction Division, Advanced Measurement and Geometry, Decimals, Data and Statistics, and Pre-Algebra.  ​