How to Help Students Learn Long Division in Upper Elementary
Long division is both challenging to learn and to teach! Students often have a broad range of understanding of this concept. It requires a strong prior understanding of all other operations: addition, subtraction and multiplication facts and methods, which may still be developing in many students. Challenges Upper elementary students need to understand that division […]
The Place Value Division Strategy Step by Step Guide
What is place value chart division? The place value chart division method is a great way for introducing the division of larger numbers. My students have always responded well to this visual version of the box method and I find it helps those struggling to master division make more sense of how division works. I’ve […]
Master Division: Free Divisibility Rules Poster and Bookmarks for Teachers and Students!
What are divisibility rules? Divisibility rules in math are shortcuts to quickly check if one whole number can be evenly divided by another. They save time by avoiding lengthy division calculations involved in methods like long division. Why divisibility rules matter I tend to introduce divisibility rules from 4th Grade onwards and like many elements […]
How to Use the Big Seven Division Method
What is Big Seven strategy for division? The Big 7 division method is a useful way to introduce long division using partial quotients. By partial quotient, we refer to the factor or number that we multiply the divisor by. I often use this partial quotient method to introduce students to division. The name comes from […]
Division Box Method
The long division box method (or long division area model) is a systematic technique that I think is gaining more popularity when teaching long division. It’s certainly one of the methods I use. It involves breaking down numbers from the dividend into their place values. The divisor sequentially divides into each place. Any remainders from […]