Lesson 4 – Repeated Subtraction

Objective:

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to divide numbers using repeated subtraction.

Repeated subtraction is another method of division. It helps you find out the number of times a number can go into another number. For example you can tell the number of times 4 goes into 20 by subtracting 4 from 20 repeatedly till you get zero or a number less than 4. This is demonstrated below.

Example 1

Example 2