[NIFL-LD:4495] Re: Long Division Help!!!

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Mag wrote:
> Another way to think of division is repeated subtraction. In 
> 30/5, how many 5's can be subtracted from 30 until five can no longer be 
> taken away. Count up the minus signs. The number at the bottom, if not 
> 0, is the remainder. Any student who can subtract can divide.  Jeanne


Very elegant, Jeanne!



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