How to do long division math How to do long division math I was recently trying to figure out how many points per game a local basketball player was averaging. I did, but I decided to rebel against technology for the moment and do the long division math, something many kids today avoid as long as a calculator is around.
Long division is actually very simple to do.
It just takes a little bit of thinking and patience, two qualities that aren t bad to exercise every now and then. Let s try 359 divided by 17. This tells us our answer will be twenty-something. We know 17 will go into 19 one time with a remainder of two. So 359 divided by 17 is 21 with a remainder of two.