Maths: a different method for division

Today we learned another way of doing division.  It is repeated subtraction.  Look at the method on the right side of the board.  We want to divide 53 by 3.  We could take away 3 lots of times, and count how many times we do it.  That would take a long time, so we take away multiples of 3 instead.  Follow the steps on the board to see how it was done.  Warning: this is not the same type of long division that parents and teachers learned when they were at school!  However, it is easy to understand how it works.