Dividing by 9: Craft Party

Grab your glitter glue, it’s the Craft Party again, where everything comes in nines! Sticker sheets have 9 stickers and tic-tac-toe boards have 9 squares, so the crafters share their supplies into nines.

Remember: every division fact is a times table fact backwards.

• 27 ÷ 9 = 3 because 3 × 9 = 27
• 45 ÷ 9 = 5 because 5 × 9 = 45
• 63 ÷ 9 = 7 because 7 × 9 = 63
• 72 ÷ 9 = 8 because 8 × 9 = 72

Magic trick: Think multiplication: 54 ÷ 9 asks 9 × what = 54? From 18 to 90, the answer is one more than the first digit: 54 starts with 5, so 54 ÷ 9 = 6.