Originally Posted by Val
When all that matters is the score on a high stakes test, they'll focus on the bit where his potentially low score may create trouble for them.

Oh don't I know! wink He just spent 30 minutes doing division with remainder last night because his teacher wanted to make sure he knew how to make a remainder for the state tests. Since on the test, it won't have an answer with a terminating or repeating decimal...

He now has fully demonstrated his ability to "half divide" as he calls it- because you only did half of the problem.