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    How to Divide with the Area/Box Method to Teach Long Division

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    Hundreds, tens, and thousands base tens blocks and text that says Teaching Long Division with the Area Method

    Are you unsure of how to teach division using the area or box method using partial quotients? Are you looking for a better way to teach the area method dor division but you aren’t sure how?  Teaching Division for Conceptual Understanding If you are like me, you grew up learning how to do long division […]

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    How to Teach Decimal Place Value

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    Decimal place value and rounding. Teach decimals with a number line meter tape

    So what is place value? It’s fairly simple: It’s the value of a digit in a number, right? The problem is kids need hands-on experience to understand this!    Learning the concept of place value is a foundational skill that will help students perform all four math operations: multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction.  So it’s […]

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