Originally Posted by mnmom23
Partial Quotients? That's the method my kids were taught at school for two years, right up until they were told at the end of 5th grade that they would have to learn the "old-fashioned parent way" because EDM wasn't used in middle school. Gaah! Thankfully I had shown my kids the "old-fashioned" way years before and they preferred that way anyway.


This is basically just the regular long division algorithm, except with a trial and error component if people aren't good at estimating the quotient. If you get each digit of the quotient right the first time, this method is almost exactly the same as the standard long division algorithm.

When the divisor is just a one digit number, however, there are definitely easier methods.