Division as Fairness: A Waldorf Math Story with Divya Divide
COURSE DESCRIPTION
🔎 In this creative Waldorf-inspired math course, children learn division not as an abstract procedure, but as something lived and experienced.
🪭 Through the unfolding story of Divya Divide, mathematical ideas arise naturally from everyday settings - where questions of fairness, grouping, and clarity matter. Each lesson weaves together storytelling, movement, visual thinking, art, and guided practice, allowing children to meet division with their whole body and imagination, not just on paper.
🖐 Concepts are introduced through real situations first, then practiced with intention. This approach supports focus, builds confidence, and helps children understand not only how division works, but when and why to use it.
✅ Students will deepen their understanding of division concepts such as:
- Sharing and grouping as two complementary models of division
- Recognizing and using remainders in meaningful contexts
- Fact families and the relationship between multiplication and division
- Visual and concrete representations
- Moving from word problems to number sentences - applying division to real-life
⚖️ Alongside the math, children encounter themes of truth, responsibility, and courage. Division becomes more than arithmetic - it becomes part of life. These early experiences with division help cultivate flexible thinking, mathematical confidence, and a positive foundation that supports all future math learning. 💯
👓 This is a SELF-PACED (pre-recorded) class with NO live meetings. Your learner will be engaged through a variety of activities. There are six video lessons of approximately 30 minutes and accompanying printouts to work with after class. Advance at your own pace!
⏳ Class Structure
5 min – Movement
5 min – Story
20 min – Hands-on and written practice
🍎 TASKS & OBJECTIVES:
- Explore division through meaningful situations like sharing, grouping, and fair distribution
- Understand the relationship between division and multiplication
- Work confidently with remainders and word problems
- Strengthen number sense through movement, art, games, and guided practice
- Write number sentences that grow naturally out of story and real-life contexts
- Develop flexible thinking: seeing division in more than one way
✅ SYLLABUS:
Lesson 1: Division as Fair Sharing
Discover how sharing equally leads to clarity, balance, and the first meaning of division.
Lesson 2: Division as Grouping
Explore division as forming meaningful sets through hands-on activities.
Lesson 3: Multiplication & Division: Two Ways of Seeing
Build fact families and uncover how the two operations express the same relationships in different ways.
Lesson 4: Division with Remainders
Investigate what happens when quantities don’t divide evenly, and how to interpret and record remainders.
Lesson 5: Real-Life Word Problems & Practice
Apply division in market, and farm scenarios; write number sentences; and play the Farm Board Game.
Lesson 6: Visualizing Fact Families
See how related equations (e.g., 3×4, 4×3, 12÷3, 12÷4) form a complete picture and strengthen number sense.
🎨 SUPPLY LIST
- a bean bag or hacky sac for movement activities
- crayons or color pencils
- unlined paper or notebook
- dice
- for hands-on learning: 20 small stones, seeds, or small items
ENROLLMENTS & REFUNDS
👓 AGE: If your learner is not in the age range mentioned, they can still enroll.
⏰ Upon purchase, you will have access to the first video of this course. After 24 hours, you will receive links to the remaining seven videos, along with worksheets and resources. If you're not satisfied, you will receive a full refund within 24 hours of purchase.
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A creative introduction to division where understanding grows through story, movement, art, and hands-on exploration. Children learn to apply division in real situations, building confidence, clarity, and lasting number sense.