Take a look at these pictures

Can you count the dogs?

There are 8 dogs.

Now let's count the rows.

There are 4 rows.

We want to find out what is 8 shared between 4. 

We write this as  8 ÷ 4.

To work out the answer, we count the number of dogs in each row.

There are 2 dogs in each row.

So we say that 8 divided by 4 is 2.

8 ÷ 4 = 2

Does that make sense?

Let's try some questions now.