Despite being an honor/AP student in grade school I never grasped long division mental math, but I have two young kids that will broach this subject in a few years and I want to be able to teach them if they need help.
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Do you mean HOW it works or WHY it works?
The how is quite simple, you start from the front of the number and divide with remainder, but write down the remainder in front of the next number.
1234 / 4
1 / 4 is 0 remainder 1
12 / 4 is 3 remainder 0
03 / 4 is 0 remainder 3
34 / 4 is 8 remainder 2
Decimal point
20 / 4 is 5 remainder 0
Final result 308.5
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