LESSON 6 Paper-and-Pencil Division

The Good-For-You Bakery baked 426 banana muffins. They sold them in packages of 6. How many packages of banana muffins did they make?

“I can solve that with division,” said Nila. “They made 426 ÷ 6 packages.”

Nila said she knows a paper-and-pencil method for doing division. She called this the partial quotients method.

Nila wrote the problem like this: