That would be great! Not only does it extend the idea that
division is a form of grouping but it gets them ready to look
at high school division as the inverse operation for
distributing over 'place valued' terms.

My only concern is that a 5th grader won't completely 'get'
that 546=500+40+6. But that's your area of expertise...Good luck!

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