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 […]
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 […]