Dividing by 2 — Worksheet
Halving, written as division: this dividing by 2 worksheet has twenty problems for children aged 7-9, from 2 ÷ 2 = 1 to 20 ÷ 2 = 10.
2 A4 pages · for home and classroom use
Labugen
Dividing by 2
set no. 7102
- 1.10 ÷ 2 =
- 2.18 ÷ 2 =
- 3.14 ÷ 2 =
- 4.6 ÷ 2 =
- 5.8 ÷ 2 =
- 6.20 ÷ 2 =
- 7.12 ÷ 2 =
- 8.4 ÷ 2 =
- 9.2 ÷ 2 =
- 10.16 ÷ 2 =
- 11.2 ÷ 2 =
- 12.14 ÷ 2 =
- 13.18 ÷ 2 =
- 14.6 ÷ 2 =
- 15.20 ÷ 2 =
- 16.8 ÷ 2 =
- 17.10 ÷ 2 =
- 18.4 ÷ 2 =
- 19.12 ÷ 2 =
- 20.6 ÷ 2 =
How to use this worksheet
- Act out problem 1, 10 ÷ 2, by sharing ten coins between two people: five each.
- Solve problems 1 to 10 first. They contain all ten facts once, so their answers are the numbers 1 to 10, each exactly once.
- Then solve problems 11 to 20; 6 ÷ 2 turns up three times on this page and 16 ÷ 2 only once.
- Check with the answer page and say the matching doubles aloud: 2 × 5 = 10, 2 × 9 = 18.
What this worksheet teaches
Every problem divides an even number from 2 to 20 by 2, so all answers are whole numbers from 1 to 10. Dividing by 2 is the easiest division to picture, because it means splitting into two equal halves. It is also the reverse of doubling, which most children already know, so the page connects division to multiplication from the very first problem.
Dividing by 2 is halving
Half of a number is what each person gets when two share fairly. For bigger numbers, halve the tens and the ones separately: half of 18 is half of 10 (5) plus half of 8 (4), which is 9. Only even numbers can be halved into whole numbers, which is why every number divided on this page is even.