What is the Remainder?

What is the Remainder? Division won’t always give you a neat and clean answer – sometimes, you’ll be left with a remainder. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways Think of the remainder as a leftover – It’s like making 8 servings but only having 7 people over – you’ll have 1 serving remaining, […]

What Is a Quotient

What Is a Quotient Learn more about this important division term, and discover ways to find the quotient using simple subtraction methods. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways The quotient comes in a couple forms – If one number is perfectly divisible by another, the quotients are likely whole numbers. But, if one […]

How To Do Long Division

How To Do Long Division Turn your big numbers into smaller ones with long division – just master these easy steps. Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways Long division is a process for dividing large numbers – This method breaks dividing large numbers into a sequence of easy steps you can use to […]

What Are the Divisor and the Dividend?

What Are the Divisor and the Dividend? Let’s split up these elements of division and break down exactly what they are.  Author Jill Padfield Published: Oct 2024 Key takeaways They are the two main parts of any division problem – Simply put, the dividend is the number getting divided, and the divisor is what we […]