Division Song Lyrics

Yeah, I was practicing my aim

Before the basketball game

With three groups of two basketballs

Six basketballs in all

Took two shots, got nothing but net

Then two more, and two more, yet

Now zero balls on left, that's the difference

And we can show this as a division sentence

Six has how many groups of two basketballs

We see three equal groups in all

So we call the three groups the quotient

Two the divisor, and then six the dividend

Yeah, yeah

The number divided is the dividend

The divisor divides

So that in the end

We find the number of groups

That's the quotient

We can think of division as repeated subtraction

We can think of six divided by two

As repeatedly subtracting groups of two from six

Until there are none left over

Let's go

I was practicing my aim before the soccer game

Four groups of three soccer balls

Twelve soccer balls in all

I got the first group of three in the net

Then again, and again, and again, it was a perfect set

Now zero balls are left, that's the difference

And we can show this as a division sentence

Twelve has how many groups of three soccer balls

We see four equal groups in all

So we call four groups the quotient, three the divisor

And then twelve the dividend

The number divided is the dividend

The divisor divides

So that in the end

We find the number of groups

That's the quotient

We can think of division as repeated subtraction

There are two types of problems when we divide

We're either finding the number of groups or the group size

If we look at the basketballs we can find three groups of two

Or we could find two balls in three groups, which is equally true

The number divided is the dividend

The divisor divides

So that in the end

We find the number of groups

That's the quotient

We can think of division as repeated subtraction