Support your students’ understanding of division with this informative and visually engaging resource: the Division Posters. These posters focus on three key concepts fundamental to building division fluency—equal groups, repeated addition, and inverse operations. Perfect for classroom displays, small group scaffolding, or individual student reference, these posters offer clear explanations and visual examples that help demystify division strategies.

Each poster introduces a different strategy in a student-friendly format, making them ideal for reinforcing key ideas introduced during lessons. Whether you’re launching a division unit or looking for a way to revisit foundational skills, these posters provide a consistent visual anchor to support developing mathematical thinking and confidence.

Designed to cater to a range of learners, the Division Posters can be used across multiple learning environments. With bold visuals and straightforward language, they’re particularly useful for visual learners and students who benefit from seeing mathematical relationships illustrated clearly.

Key Learning Outcomes

• ✅ Understand division as equal sharing or grouping
• ✅ Connect division to repeated addition and subtraction
• ✅ Explore the inverse relationship between multiplication and division
• ✅ Build vocabulary and confidence when discussing division strategies
• ✅ Develop fluency with a variety of division representations

What’s Included

• One poster explaining division using equal groups, including visual groupings and a matching number sentence
• One poster demonstrating repeated addition as a model for division
• One poster illustrating how inverse operations connect multiplication and division fact families
• Each poster is available in both full colour and black-and-white formats for flexible printing

Materials Needed

• Access to a colour printer or black-and-white printer with coloured paper for differentiation
• Laminator or write-and-wipe sleeves (optional, for reusability)
• Sticky tack, magnets, or display hooks for classroom wall mounting

How to Use

1. Introduce each poster during explicit teaching of division strategies. Use them as anchor visuals while modelling equal groups, repeated addition, or using multiplication facts to solve division problems.
2. Display all three posters on a maths bulletin board or rotate them throughout a division unit as each concept is introduced or revisited.
3. Provide individual copies for students working in small groups or intervention sessions to support strategy recall during independent work.
4. Use the black-and-white versions for students to colour and annotate as part of a consolidation activity or reflection task.

Ideas for Classroom Use

• 💡 Set up a division strategy wall where students can add examples from their own work under each poster
• 💡 Use the posters as a discussion starter in maths warm-ups - e.g. “Which of these strategies would you use to solve 20 ÷ 4?”
• 💡 Incorporate the posters into a maths rotation station for students to explore each strategy with manipulatives or whiteboards
• 💡 Share the posters digitally for home reinforcement or remote learning

Top Teacher Tips

• 💛 Print the black-and-white posters on coloured cardstock to colour-code strategies and create visual distinction between methods
• 💛 Encourage students to explain which poster best matches their thinking after solving a division problem
• 💛 Pair the posters with hands-on materials like counters, arrays, or linking cubes to bring the concepts to life

Whether you're reinforcing prior knowledge, introducing new strategies, or supporting struggling learners, the Division Posters are a practical and engaging tool to bring clarity and consistency to your classroom’s approach to division.