In this lesson, students explore a context to make sense of division with multi-digit numbers (MP1). This builds on work students did in grade 4, when they divided up to four-digit dividends by one-digit divisors. Students used place-value understanding, the relationship between multiplication and division, and partial quotients to divide. The work in this lesson gives teachers an opportunity to see how students apply their prior understanding, including multiplying multi-digit numbers in the last section. In future lessons, students work toward using more efficient methods to divide multi-digit numbers, including partial quotients.

The context is a world-record event for making the largest Peruvian folk dance. The mathematically important part of the context is that there were 4,704 people at the record-breaking event, and they were in groups of 8.