Five friends buy a €15.75 pizza-and-chips deal and agree to split the cost exactly. Hands up: how much should each friend pay, and will it come out evenly?
The interactive shares each amount into equal groups, one example at a time. Watch how each amount splits into equal groups, and see what happens when the last one doesn't share out evenly.
We work through three shares together on the interactive. Before each reveal, say the answer to yourself, then watch the answer appear and notice that the decimal point stays in the same place-value position as in the amount we started with.
In your maths copy, set out each of these decimal divisions with the decimal point in the answer lined up directly above the point in the amount you are sharing:
Beside each answer, write the unit (€ or m) and one short note on how you handled any leftover.
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