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Understanding Division

This Teachers TV video looks back at the Key Stage One mathematics lesson taught by Anne Farrell, featured in the video Just Division. Headteacher Iain George and Mathematics Consultant Richard Dunne meet with Anne to discuss her teaching practices, comparing her methods with those of teachers in two Birmingham primary schools. The group discusses the visualisation method of teaching division and debates the merits of various calculations, drawing some interesting conclusions along the way. Central to the debate is the question of whether teaching students a variety of division methods and allowing them choice is more successful than teaching and embedding one method from which they can branch out.

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