Monster Division Worksheets
So, it’s really time to banish the long division monster. We’ve been working on long division all summer, but still there’s some perception that a three digit long division problem is much harder than a four digit problem, and heaven help us if a five or six digit division worksheet gets shuffled into the daily drills.
So, to finally drive a stake through this beast’s heart, we came up with a sort of agreement. I can assign worksheets with division problems as large as I want, as long as there’s no more than one problem per page. Well, throw the switch, a lightning bolt rips through Dad’s dungeon laboratory and the Monster Division Worksheets are alive!
Of course, one problem per-page works out fine because you need that much space to work the problem out, and to make it easier to keep things lined up, the worksheets carry lines down the problem page.
Give these twelve and fourteen digit leviathans a try, and I promise their four digit kin will seem far less intimidating… Like warm, fuzzy, forest creature division.
My goodness, Dad. Next thing we know, you’ll have your 4th grader figuring her portion of the national debt! Have you no heart???
Comment by Still Old Mom — September 10, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Well, I guess $11 trillion is technically a 14 digit number, so the the girls should at least have a sense of the number after a few of these sheets, but the divisor there makes working the statistics by hand a bear… Fortunately (nor not?) you can find the current debt estimate and your the size of your own personal slice right here.
Comment by Dad — September 10, 2009 @ 8:36 pm
Just wanted to leave you a note and tell you that this is the coolest site EVER!!! Thanks so much!! Using the Addition and Subtraction worksheets to build speed this year. Just starting on Multiplication. Love the Dad’s Rules for Multiplication.
Comment by Mom of 8, 5, & 2 yr olds — September 17, 2009 @ 4:41 pm
I have been looking at a lot of websites to find teaching tools for my son.. this one has to be by far the best one yet… thank you so much for putting this out there for all of us parents who really want to help their children succeed in school. It’s absolutely wonderful.
Keep new subjects coming.. I look forward to always checking what’s new.
Comment by Another Mom — September 21, 2009 @ 8:38 pm
i just wanted to say thak you i have found a site that has pre-algebra that my daughter finally understands thank you
Comment by katt1234 — September 24, 2009 @ 11:07 am
It has made my day to find your site for math worksheets–especially the timed test sample sheets. Thank you so much for taking the time to share =)
Comment by Jill — September 29, 2009 @ 7:35 am
I teach special ed students and my math textbooks are so confusing for them. Then I found your website, Kudoos to you for making worksheets so simple and to the point!!! Thank you. However, I have one suggestion on the pages where students do greatest to least and vice versa; my students prefer having the numbers listed vertically under one another. Do you think you could modify that and accomadate a vertical version as opposed to the horizontal version?
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Susan McNamara
Comment by Susan — October 2, 2009 @ 8:00 am
Great idea, Susan… I made vertical variants of those worksheets and I’ll put a blog post up with a link!
Comment by Dad — October 3, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
That was a great reminder thanks so much! ,
Comment by Miss70 — October 23, 2009 @ 2:21 am