Dividend A number which is to be divided by another number. Dividend divided by the divisor = the quotient.
Divisible One integer is divisible by another non-zero integer if the quotient is an integer with remainder of zero.
Division An operation on two numbers to determine the number of sets or the size of the sets.
Divisor The number by which the dividend is to be divided; also a factor quotient.
Factor Whole numbers which can be divided exactly into a given number; factors are also numbers that are multiplied together to obtain a product.
Fraction A way of representing part of a whole set. See fractions page.
Halve Divide something by two, make half as large.
Division is the inverse of multiplication. A division question always has two parts - a 'dividend' (the number being divided up), and a 'divisor' (the number dividing up the dividend). The divisor is the number of equal sets or parts you want. The result of a division is also called the 'quotient'.
Division gives many people the shivers! But we can learn how to divide with Maths-Whizz. Our division exercises will help show you.
Starting from first principles our animated exercises will teach you all the skills you need, up to dividing negative numbers and complex long division.
Click the picture at right for a selection of division exercises, taken from our online maths tutoring service.
Most children are likely to have got a basic grasp of the notion of pennies and pounds, and how they relate, from an early age... If you struggle with decimal calculations, it might just help to shove a pound sign in front of the numbers.
Pop quiz - what's one half divided by one quarter? Stuck? OK, it's 2. "What?" I hear you cry, "But that doesn't make sense. We've divided something small by another small thing, that should make an even smaller thing, surely." And, of course, you'd be wrong.
The excellent Steven Strogatz, writing a series of online-only articles about maths for the New York Times, has just posted his latest piece. It’s about that hairy beast of mathematics – division! Taking a broad and accessible view of the problems of fractional quantities and how much we struggle with them, Strogatz weaves in the Daniel [...]
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