Surfing the Net with Kids: Long Division

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Long Division

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Last year, at the end of third grade, my daughter came to me with a sad confession. She just
didn’t get long division. Now, seven months later, she’s a long division whiz, called upon to help
other students in her class. What’s her secret to success? She didn’t give up. If you’re looking
for ways to help your kids with long division, here are some sites that can help.

All About Division is arranged as a series of three dozen single-page topics, ranging in
difficulty from “Division Facts for Zero to Three” up to “Dividing Numbers in Scientific
Notation.” Each page includes a lesson (titled Learn), an interactive worksheet (Practice) and a
timed quiz (Play.) After each section, you can either scroll down to the next section, or click
Return to Top to navigate with the menu at the top of the page. My favorite activity was the
Countdown quiz (in Play.) How many correct answers can you get in sixty seconds?

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/webmath/divide.html

Discovery School calls this interactive worksheet a “solver.” Enter a long division problem
(such as 2345 divided by 54) and you’ll get two answers. The first is the decimal answer you’d get
from a calculator (43.4259). The second is the quotient with a remainder (43 R 23) along with all
the “show your work” steps. In the drop-down menu in the upper right hand corner, you’ll find
dozens of solvers on topics as diverse as addition, permutations and polynomials.

http://www.onlineworksheets.org/math_worksheets.htm

Visit Improving Education for randomly-generated printable worksheets and answer keys.
Worksheets are available starting with kindergarten-level math, so to get to the four division
worksheets, you’ll need to scroll down the page. Or use your browser Find on This Page function
to search for “division.” At each of the four levels, you can either generate just a worksheet, or a
worksheet with an answer key. Want more of the same? Simply hit refresh and you’ll be
rewarded with a new worksheet with a different set of problems. Computers are so cool!

http://www.mathsisfun.com/long_division2.html

This is the best step-by-step explanation of long division I found on the Net. The page is a bit
wide, though, so you’ll probably need to scroll left to right to see the whole thing. In addition to
this illustrated example of long division with remainders, there are two more pages on division
(look for the links at the bottom of the page.) The first is an explanation of long division without
remainders, and the second is an explanation of long division with decimal places in the
quotient.

http://www.singlepoint.net/users/sbryce/mathwork/div1.htm

MathWork is another nifty site for generating printable division worksheets (but no answer
keys.) Determine the difficulty level by specifying how many digits in the divisor (the number
which divides the other number), how many digits in the quotient (the answer) and whether or not
to include problems with remainders (the amount left over.) When you’ve generated the
appropriate worksheet, hit browser refresh to get another worksheet with the same parameters.
Look in the left-hand menu for two more division worksheets: single-digit horizontal problems
and a five-minute drill that covers all the single-digit divisor facts.

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