Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iAG0II020535; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:18:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:18:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <009b01c4cb71$24410380$64fe10ac@attbi.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Mary Lou Friedline" <friedlin@comcast.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4481] Re: Long Division Help!!! X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2366 Lines: 90 My ABE/GED/Remedial adult students regularly use these PowerPoint presentations. If needed, handouts can be printed for them to add their own additional notes. http://www.hpedsb.on.ca/sg/quinet/monicas_math.htm Mary Lou Friedline Adult Education Instructor PIC of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc. R.R. #12 Box 213 Greensburg, PA 15601 friedlin@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Jones" <sujones@parkland.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 1:37 PM Subject: [NIFL-LD:4480] Re: Long Division Help!!! > 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 > Webmastress, > http://www.resourceroom.net > > >>> 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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