How to Teach Division

How to Teach Division: Tips from a Math Tutor How to teach division to elementary school students who are struggling. Tips from a math tutor for parents. Author Amber Watkins Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways How you teach division varies by grade level. While long division is typically introduced in 4th grade or 5th grade […]

What is the Remainder?

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What is the Remainder? Division won’t always give you a neat and clean answer – sometimes, you’ll be left with a remainder. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways Think of the remainder as a leftover – It’s like making 8 servings but only having 7 people over – you’ll have 1 serving remaining, […]

What Is a Quotient

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What Is a Quotient Learn more about this important division term, and discover ways to find the quotient using simple subtraction methods. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways The quotient comes in a couple forms – If one number is perfectly divisible by another, the quotients are likely whole numbers. But, if one […]

How To Do Long Division

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How To Do Long Division Turn your big numbers into smaller ones with long division – just master these easy steps. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways Long division is a process for dividing large numbers – This method breaks dividing large numbers into a sequence of easy steps you can use to […]

What Are the Divisor and the Dividend?

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What Are the Divisor and the Dividend? Let’s split up these elements of division and break down exactly what they are.  Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways They are the two main parts of any division problem – Simply put, the dividend is the number getting divided, and the divisor is what we […]