What is the best way to teach beginning division?

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My daughter understood the concepts of multiplication and division before she started kindergarten. We did it playing with beans on the table. We made up stories. You have 10 beans and 5 friends. 19 divided by 5 is_______ and she would count out the first 5 then the second 5 and learn that each friend had 2.

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