Picture this: your team has 13 hurleys to share out between 4 players so everyone has the same number. How many hurleys does each player get? And here is the tricky part: is there anything left over?

Hands up: what do we call the bit that is left over after we have shared as fairly as we can?

The interactive deals counters into equal groups, one round at a time. Watch how many land in each group and how many are left over. That leftover is the remainder.

Today we work through these four divisions one after another at the board, dealing the counters into equal groups and reading off the leftover each time: 14 ÷ 3, then 22 ÷ 4, then 26 ÷ 6, then 40 ÷ 7. Each one leaves something over, and we will say the remainder aloud and check it is smaller than the number of groups before we move on to the next one.

Today we solve these remainder problems from real life, one step harder each time: 11 buns shared among 3 friends, then 22 sweets shared among 5 friends, then 34 cones packed into 6 bags, then 50 children put into 8 teams. For each one, deal the counters into equal groups, read off the quotient and the remainder, and then say what the leftover actually means in the story.