INSTRUCTIONS

The following image was made from Divide Fractions:

The parts of a division example are the dividend, the divisor, and the quotient.

When the program starts, you will be asked to identify the dividend. The dividend is the horizontal distance of the red arrow.

Once the dividend is correctly identified, a rectangle representing the divisor will appear. The divisor is the horizontal distance of the blue arrow. The program will not continue unless the dividend or the divisor are correctly identified.

You will then be asked to find the quotient. The quotient is the number of blue divisor rectangles that will fit into the red dividend rectangle.

You can see from the image that 5 divisor rectangles fit into the dividend rectangle. The quotient, then is 5.

To calculate the quotient,  first write the dividend and the divisor in fraction form as shown in the example below. Then multiply the dividend 3/2 by the inverse of the divisor. In short,  divide by 1/4 by multiplying by 4/1.

See MULTIPLY FRACTIONS  for instructions on how to multiply fractions.

 See MULTIPLICATIVE INVERSE for more information on how to find the inverse.

Written out, the example would look like this:

The quotient in Divide Easy will be a whole number from 1 to 12.