[NIFL-LD:4480] Re: Long Division Help!!!

From: Susan Jones (sujones@parkland.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 13:37:27 EST


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Sometimes the 'showing how it works" only complicates matters.  I've
found when that doesn't help, that if I reduce it to as simple a process
as possible, it's more likely to stick.   

http://www.uwrf.edu/~ll63/ElEd/Number/Montessori/Mdivision.htm
describes learning multidigit division in a Montessori class. There's
more if you put "long division" and Montessori into our good friend
Google :-) 

Susan Jones
Academic Development Specialist
Academic Development Center
Parkland College
Champaign, IL  61821
sujones@parkland.edu
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>>> RKenyon721@aol.com 11/15/04 11:47AM >>>
Hello all,

I just read this message posted on the Focus on Basics discussion list
and 
thought that one of our LD subscribers would be able to respond to
Michele Craig.

Any suggestions for her???

Please post your responses to: nifl-fobasics@nifl.gov and also to our
list 
at: nifl-ld@nifl.gov 


Thanks,


Rochelle Kenyon, Moderator
NIFL LD and Literacy Discussion List
RKenyon721@aol.com 



Dear Colleagues,

I need some ideas for teaching long division to ABE students who
probably 
have learning disabilities. At the moment, I have two in my classroom
who 
are really not getting it. We have tried math blocks (to show how it
works 
visually), I have tried having them use graph paper for the problems.
They 
do it fine one day and then come in the next day and can't remember the

process again. Since I have been encountering this problem over and
over 
again with various students, I need some tools. I remember I saw a 
kinesthetic way to teach long division at a Montessori school. Does
anyone 
have any ideas?

Thanks

Michele Craig
Woodland Adult School



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