Interactive Long Division Lessons
Interactive lessons in long division include flashcards, online lessons, interactive worksheets and virtual games. Games that mimic sports play, using division problems, provide a playful way to review division functions while online lessons provide immediate homework help and colorful graphics which help engage students.
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Online Long Division Lessons With Number Monster Game
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Immediate answers and endless practice problems make online learning easy. CoolMath4Kids (coolmath4kids.com) has online long division lessons which also include a problem generator called the Number Monster. Colorful graphics help make the lessons on this site easy to understand. The Number Monster for Long Division is a problem generator which allows players to choose from five skill levels and keeps track of scores during play. The Number Monster boasts that it creates "endless numbers of practice problems with answers."
Interactive Long Division Games
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Students gain confidence in their long division skills using online activities. Play simulated sports games using division problems and solutions. Players choose countries to represent in the World Cup Math game (mrnussbaum.com), and compete defensively and offensively, answering division problems to score. A similar game, Soccer Shootout (funbrain.com), allows students to play a simulated soccer game, choosing between fraction and whole number division problems. Players answer long division questions to score in this game as well. Snork's Long Division game (kidsnumbers.com) allows players to score points for long division problems with a monster cheering on players.
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Draggable Division and WebMath Long Division Problems
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Online division games allow students to practice skills at any time of the day or night. Create your own long division problems online using Draggable Division (mrnussbaum.com), then drag numbers across the computer screen to solve long division problems. Choose between problems with remainders or no remainders, decide how many digits you would like the divisor and dividend to have and select the number of problems you would like to create for the review. WebMath (webmath.com) allows students to create a long division problem, then shows how long division works as it solves the problem. Frog Math's Dividerama (cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca) also provides users with interactive long division problems with answers.
Flashcards, Quizzes, Lessons and Worksheets
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Create individualized worksheets, flashcards and quizzes with Quizlet. Quizlet (quizlet.com) has long division lessons, flashcards, worksheets and quizzes. You can use long division flashcard sets on this site or they can be printed out. Users can listen to worksheet vocabulary terms with an audio component, and quizzes can be created to suit specific needs. Quizzes can be created with answer choices, such as true or false, written, multiple choice or matching quizzes. The quizzes can be taken online with answers immediately provided or they can be printed out with an answer sheet. This site allows users to create their own flashcard sets as well. In addition, IXL (ixl.com) has dozens of online division lesson plans spanning several grade levels.
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