From The Times Tables to Long Division | Grid Method for Quick Calculation
In this 3 week class 6 hour class students will learn how to do long division with each number 2 through 9 as well as strategies for learning the related facts for division and multiplication and multiples for each.
Class Experience
US Grade 4 - 5
Intermediate Level
Students will learn to do long division using strategies to write mini times tables for each number 2 through 9. These tables will help students become efficient with the times and division tables as well as multiples for each number. Traditional long division is a very effective method, something that has been used by engineers, NASA scientists, architects and mathematicians for decades. We will learn this method and more strategies to make it easier and more efficient. The first step...
This class is taught in English.
Students will be able to do long division with single digit divisors into numbers up to 9999 with remainders.
I have a Bachelor of Education degree from University of Alberta with a major in Elementary Education and a minor in Special Education. I've taught over 30 years in the classroom both in Canada and in Australia as part of an exchange program. Math as well as music, language and memory are topics I have presented at teachers' conventions including the following: Christian Teachers' Convention Palliser Teachers’ Convention Mighty Peace Teachers’ Convention Provincial Literary Convention Greater Edmonton Teachers’ Convention South Western Teachers Convention Calgary City Teachers’ Convention South Eastern Teacher’s Convention Mighty Peace Teachers’ Convention I have developed education resources including building apps for Apple, coding online programs for math, creating math games for math fact practice and developing other math resources for schools. My students have achieved top placements at national math and memory competitions.
Homework Offered
Students will be assigned worksheets with long division questions and are expected to do 10-15 minutes of practice outside of class.Assessments Offered
Students will be given a pre-test and a post-test. It will be a sheet of questions that test each divisor 2 through 9 with a simple and advance question for each. Parents will be able to see which skills have been learned and how proficient they with long division.Grades Offered
Available times
Pacific
Meet the teacher
My name is Darren Michalczuk and I have been a teacher for more than thirty years teaching everything from kindergarten to grade twelve, from special needs to gifted students and math to music to gym. I've been a homeroom teacher, specialist for...
Group Class
$36
weekly or $108 for 6 classes2x per week, 3 weeks
45 min
Live video meetings
Ages 9-11
6-12 learners per class