Price: $3.99

Long Division Review

Our Review

My Second and Third Graders needed extra help understanding the concepts of long division and I found the perfect solution; “Long Division” is like a tutor in your pocket! There are several things that make this app special. First, it can be customize to the child’s level of learning needs. You can choose between 1 or 2 divisor digits, or 3,4,5 dividend digits. You can customize the theme colored background to black, white, or gold, and the animation can be changed from slow to fast. You also have a lot of choices, like creating your own problems or solving the ones displayed, and choosing if you want remainders or decimals. The biggest challenge when working with division problems for early learners is keeping the numbers in the correct columns and, of course, remembering multiplication facts. What’s great is this app highlights the column that needs to be solved. At the bottom of the screen are the answers and when you choose the right answer to the step, it will float to the correct position in the problem. If the wrong number is chosen, it will inform you that you’ve made the incorrect choice. The app allows the user a chance to keep trying until the problem is solved. Long division is difficult for some students and I like this app because it makes the experience very simple. This simple approach does not overwhelm the learner and that’s just what a child needs to be successful at practicing long division. Problem Solved!

By Age Range, Math, Primary School, Reviews

June 8th, 2010 by Melinda Landon Share

Application Detail

Long Division

Developer: Esa Helttula
Released: 2010-01-14 00:00:00
Price: $3.99

Description from the Developer

Educational App Review (iear.org) gave the Long Division app their highest rating. Purpose, program functionality and overall educational value were all rated A.

The Long Division app can be used to teach and study the long division method. Solving long division problems is also excellent subtraction and times tables practice. The app is easy to use and it has an intuitive interface with customizable colors and other settings. The user can solve custom and random division problems with small and large numbers.

Endorsed by Teachers

R. Zeni, Ecole Sandy Hill Elementary, Abbotsford, BC, Canada:

"The Math apps by Esa Helttula allow students to practice and reinforce the specific computation strategies taught in class, with as much or as little scaffolding as necessary. I am so glad to have come across this great educational tool!"

Reviews

Wired.com:

"The Long Division app is very clear and very useful."

Education Apps Review, www.iear.org:

"This app is fantastic!!

My third graders loved learning with this app! It has infinite enriching and differentiating possibilities, as the students can select easier or more challenging types of problems."

PragmaticMom, www.pragmaticmom.com:

"Be still my beating heart! My 5th Grader is learning long division and sometimes working through the problems step by step is confusing to her. So you can imagine how excited I AM with this app, named Long Division, that translates long division into a color coordinated step by step process and has a number key pad so that the student can input their numbers every step of the way. Then, the numbers slide from the problem, into their proper place in the problem. Very visual and memorable!"

Fun Educational Apps, www.funeducationalapps.com:

"Together with my son, we started to practice Long Division, a great easy to use educational math app. His level of confidence increased and soon he was mastering long divisions."

AppReviewLive, www.appreviewlive.com:

"It’s almost like having a teacher in the palm of your hand.."

Customer review form the US iTunes App Store:

“Taught my son what his teachers were unable to do. We are so grateful!”

The Long Division Method

In arithmetic, long division is the standard procedure suitable for dividing numbers. The method breaks down a division problem into a series of easier steps.

Easy to Use

The app allows the user to solve a long division problem step by step and animates all the steps. In the steps the user will divide, multiply or subtract. The correct answer will fly to the right place. If the user presses the wrong button the answer will appear above the keyboard but it will not move.

Features:

- The dividend can have 1 - 5 digits
- The divisor can have 1 - 3 digits
- Remainders can be allowed or disallowed
- The dividend and divisor can have decimals
- The dividend and the divisor can have leading zeroes
- The app will place zeros in order to extend the division to the next decimal place, if needed
- The divisor can be bigger than the dividend
- The current operation for each step can be hidden
- The operands for the current operation can be highlighted
- There are 3 different themes: black, white and gold
- The speed of the animations can be set
- Numbers to divide can be generated randomly or entered manually
- Works in portrait and landscape orientation on the iPad

Feedback and Requests for New Features

I keep updating all of my apps and all kinds of feedback and suggestions are welcome at idevbooks.com. Please don't hesitate to contact me also before you buy the app, if you have questions.

Part of a series of 17 iDevBooks math apps

Some of my other math apps are Column Subtraction, Column Addition, Fraction Math, Long Multiplication, and Multiplication Table.

The iDevBooks math apps contain no ads, in-app purchases, push notifications, tracking, or any kind of data collection whatsoever. Full privacy policy is at idevbooks.com.