I'm having a hard time teaching long divsion to my third graders. How can I make long division easy?
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err.. what do you mean by long division? i'm in high school and i should know cuz right now i'm taking college classes.
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I wish I had known how much paperwork and "fluff" was involved.  After student-teaching, I was SO EXCITED to have my own class and just TEACH.  I was motivated and had fun, interactive lesson plans on which I had worked VERY hard.  However, when I started out the school year, I quickly realized how much fluff there is - committees, meetings, paperwork, demands of your time from administration, etc. and felt that I wasn't really being given much time to do what I truly loved and what brought me there in the first place...to TEACH.\n\nI learned to be as efficient as possible and use your planning time VERY effectively so that those things can be minimized and put to the side...as they should be.  Then you have more time with your students, who are all that really matter.\n\nHope this helps!  :o)\np.s. I have taught third and fifth grades...mostly third.
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Division, if you do not know how to divide can be done easily.\n\nTake the problem 32 divided by 8.  You would divide this out the long way.  The easiest way might be to subtract 8 until you get to zero.   You notice it take you 4 times of subtracting 8 to get to zero.  So your answer would be 4.
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I have a 3rd grader. This site is awesome, has interactive practice work, too. \n\nhttp://www.aaamath.com/B/grade3.htm\n\nAlso to practice multiplication go to www.multiplication.com
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The school may provide a program, that is the best bet.  You can check with the school board, or can raise the issue at parent and teacher conferences.  If that fails, you can try algebra made easy books.  I hope this is helpful, and your son comes to understand it, just keep with it, it will sink in.
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Use a big Tupperware container to put it all in. I did that for the 11 year old class and it worked just spiffy.
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My dad uses edhelper.com, for my younger sister, and it works great!\nThey have printouts and activites for you to there to learn. \n\nThey also have many catagories. So click on "math, then "5th grade" then the kind of division you are looking for.\nSuch as work problems or long division.
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The best and most overlooked way to improve classroom education of any kind is to introduce the use of boardgames. I have taught for over ten years all over the world, and only when I use boardgames do students voluntarily insist on extending their classes for two, three, even four hours. Not only that but they then show the most rapid improvement.\nCheck out the following websites for some useful background info.\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-1.html\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-2.html\n\nhttp://subscriptions.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/208.cfm\n\nhttp://www.gama.org/uploads/nS/XX/nSXX7lbqv9r-V1glq3UvQg/GinEBrochure1.pdf\n\nGive it a try and you will be amazed. At least you will be helping to break the monopoly that the big textbook publishers have over the education industry.
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The best and most overlooked way to improve classroom education of any kind is to introduce the use of boardgames. I have taught for over ten years all over the world, and only when I use boardgames do students voluntarily insist on extending their classes for two, three, even four hours. Not only that, but they then show the most rapid improvement.\nCheck out the following websites for some useful background info.\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-1.html\n\nhttp://www.rpg.net/sites/edu/1-2.html\n\nhttp://subscriptions.fasfind.com/wwwtools/m/208.cfm\n\nhttp://www.gama.org/uploads/nS/XX/nSXX7lbqv9r-V1glq3UvQg/GinEBrochure1.pdf\n\nGive it a try and you will be amazed. At least you will be helping to break the monopoly that the big textbook publishers have over the education industry.
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I tutor high school math students, the problem I usualy come across is: the teacher is not willing to slow down and explain each and every detail of the problem. \nI find once I break down the problem and talk them through it they are more comfortable with the math.
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Algebra is really a big subject. Maple or Mathematica may help. Especially graphs. They are easy and useful.\nI do have 2 examples of story problems which may help.\nSay you are to feed 16 animals each get the same biscuits, the dogs get 2 the cats get 1. You are given 25 biscuits. How many dogs,how many cats are there? \nYou realize all 16 get one so hand out 16. Now the cats have been fed and the remaining 9 biscuits must be for the dogs.\nIf Sally can make 3 salads in 1 hour and Mark can make 2. How long to make 1 salad if they work together?\nThink of cars and miles per hour. Sally's speed is 3/hr and Mark's 2/hr. The sum is 5/hour. Now you need hour/salad so invert. 1/5 of an hour to make one salad.
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There is so much you can do with your time at the end of a lesson that would FACILITATE learning, not just consume time.  I honestly can't believe that a teacher would even ask this question.  I would suggest that you have the students work together in groups to produce a game show like Jeopardy or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (using PowerPoint- you can find templates online), with word problems related to the unit you're studying.  Then, you could use those games to review concepts before the test.
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Give them less homework and try to make it more fun. Give less paperwork and more interesting projects. Try to be more creative with it. I know kids can be very difficult to teach these days. Good luck!
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I completely understand! I have high schoolers, and have to nearly re-learn to help them!\n\nYahoo education has help with algebra;\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/math_help/chapter_list?id=minialg1gt \n\nSo does math.com:\nhttp://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/Algebra.html \n\nPhysics help:\nhttp://www.physics247.com/ \n\nGood luck to you!
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The Saxon math books were the best that I ever used. Doing 1/2 of a book ended up being the equivalent of 2 years in public schools. They are excellent in reinforcing what has already been learned so you don't forget it a day later!\n\nThe only way I was able to learn grammar was to teach it. If you have the older kids help the younger ones, they will end up learning and remembering far more since they have to apply their knowledge.\n\nReading the right books can teach them more than any multiple choice quiz they have to study for.\n\nDo not let them get away with skipping parts of exercises that they do not want to do and you do not want to grade anyway!\n\nGive the youngest ones learning activities at the same time so they feel like they are part of it and get into the habit of school time for when it is their turn. They will absorb more than you know of what they hear you teaching the older ones. My youngest brother can already read 2nd grade material and he is in kindergarten. But this is because he was allowed to actively participate in the learning activities.\n\nDo not try to teach them when they are hungry or tired!!!\n\nPerhaps most of all, do not underestimate your children. When they are being difficult or having a hard time grasping a concept, there is usually an underlying cause that has nothing to do with the subject matter.
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How old? Teach addition properly. Specially addition of same numbers repeatedly. It would make him understand multiplication. Give him sticks(match box, ear buds, tooth picks) and ask to give equally to friends, parents etc. Let the concept come in his own way. You are just to help not to stress. With thread/rubber band you may make 'tens' bundle with tying 10 sticks together. And show how 1 n 1 makes 11. Just some confusion is to be cleared. I think 1 week is enough. Be patient have patience.
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My father, making this same presentation to my class when I was in the first grade, spent half an hour on this complicated hypo about a stolen bike.  When he was done, the only question from the entire class was one kid who wanted to know if all judges have white hair.\n\nFor kids that young, try to find a rule and a dispute about the rule that they might understand.  Maybe something like:  The best student gets first pick of the toys at playtime.  Then you could talk about all the definitions of "best student" - highest grades, tries hardest, most attentive, etc.  And you could talk about things like whether she gets to pick once at the beginning of playtime or just can keep picking up whichever toy she wants. \n\nThat should lead to a discussion of rules, disputes, the role of lawyers to help people make their arguments, and the role of judges to decide them and why it's all better than just two kids fighting over a toy in the middle of the room.\n\nThat's how I'd do it, anyway.