Students answer questions correctly to collect treasure from the bottom of the ocean floor. Each piece of treasure is worth different amounts of points. The winner is the person with the most points at the end of the game!

Divide by 2 Let’s Sail is a fun and fast-paced digital game that reinforces division facts for 2 while building students’ understanding of the inverse relationship with multiplication. Each correct answer earns students a treasure item, each with a mystery point value that adds excitement and surprise.

With an engaging underwater theme and opportunities to earn points, students are motivated to solve problems efficiently and accurately. As they dive deeper and collect more treasure, learners build fluency and confidence in their division skills through repeated practice.

Key Learning Outcomes

• ✅ Recall and apply division facts for 2
• ✅ Understand the inverse relationship between multiplication and division
• ✅ Improve fluency and accuracy in solving basic number problems
• ✅ Build confidence through game-based repetition and strategy

How to Play

1. Select a character and the number of players or teams.
2. Answer questions involving dividing by 2 or identifying related multiplication facts.
3. Each correct answer earns a treasure item with a hidden point value.
4. Continue collecting treasure until time runs out or all items are revealed.
5. The player or team with the highest total points wins!

Ideas for Classroom Use

• 💡 Use Divide by 2 Let’s Sail as a warm-up during maths lessons or in fact fluency rotations
• 💡 Partner students to discuss how they used multiplication to check division answers
• 💡 Follow up with hands-on sorting activities using fact family triangles or number cards

Top Teacher Tips

• 💛 Let students personalise their experience by choosing from six characters before the game begins
• 💛 Select the number of players or teams at the start of the game to suit individual, paired, or group play
• 💛 Send the QR code home for students to play as a homework or revision task

Divide by 2 Let’s Sail offers a motivating way to build foundational division skills through gameplay, exploration and friendly competition beneath the sea.