Thursday, October 11, 2018

Homework, Thursday, 11th October

Note: as we have a field trip tomorrow, homework can be submitted on Monday.

Maths: Practice 4-2 Relating Multiplication and Division; Practice 4-3 Special Quotients  NO Enrichment.
Social Studies: Review Chapter 1
Literacy: Have you finished planning your Personal Narrative? Be ready to write your first draft on Monday.

A quick recap on dividing by zero:
The inverse operation for
n ÷ x = q    is:
q × x = n

so  if         n = 6
and           x = 3
then          q = 2

                 n ÷ x = q
so: if         6 ÷ 3 = 2 , the inverse operation would then be:
  2 × 3 = 6
  q × x = n

BUT if n = 7 and x = 0, as in
  7 ÷ 0
(n ÷ x)  that would suggest that the inverse operation is:
 q × 0 = 7
(q × x = n)

if q = 7, then it would read
7 × 0 = 7, which is false.

Zero cannot divide a number.






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