Lesson 10 World’s Record Folk Dance

    • Let’s explore division with multi-digit numbers.

Warm-up How Many Do You See: World Record Event

How many do you see? How do you see them?

Activity 1 How Many Groups of 8 Dancers?

There were 4,704 people at the record breaking folk dance in Peru. How many groups of 8 dancers were there? Explain or show your thinking.

Activity 2 More Groups of Dancers

Problem 1

4,704 people participate in the Peruvian folk dance. They need to be organized into groups of 4.

  1. Write a division expression to represent the situation.

  2. How many groups of 4 will there be? Explain or show your thinking.

  3. Compare your work with your partner’s. What is the same? What is different?

Problem 2

4,704 people participate in the Peruvian folk dance. They need to be organized into groups of 2.

  1. Write a division expression to represent the situation.

  2. How many groups of 2 will there be? Explain or show your thinking.

  3. Compare your work with your partner’s. What is the same? What is different?

Practice Problem

Problem 1

  1. 480 dancers make groups of 15. How many groups are there? Explain or show your reasoning.

  2. 480 dancers make groups of 30. How many groups are there? Explain or show your reasoning.