Long division, however, isn’t a problem-solving exercise for students. It’s a procedural exercise. And if a procedure doesn’t make sense for them or they lack the skill to be successful with ...

I closed my recent post, So Long, Long Division, by asking you to either join me in acknowledging that long division is a meaningless math procedure or to share reasons students should learn long ...

While it may sound daunting, partial quotient algorithm (or partial quotient division) is a method for dividing numbers that's much more accessible than the familiar but more abstract long division.