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This practice book is designed to help students develop proficiency with their long division skills by offering ample practice.This book is conveniently divided up into six parts:Part 1 reviews division facts with single-digit divisor and quotient since swift knowledge of these is critical toward long division mastery.Part 2 is limited to single-digit divisors.This way students are not challenged with too much too soon.Part 3 focuses on double-digit divisors.Parts 4 and 5 provide practice with remainders.Part 6 features a variety of multi-digit long division problems with and without remainders.An introduction describes how parents and teachers can help students make the most of this workbook.Kids are encouraged to time and score each page.In this way, they can try to have fun improving on their records, which can help lend them confidence in their math skills.A multiplication table is provided to help students who are just learning their division facts. ... Read more

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great practice book
I bought this book for my 4th grader who was having trouble with fast facts. This book is "grown-up" enough (not filled with little children cartoons or colouring activities) to make her feel she is doing important math, but it also starts with basic facts that gave her a lot of practice and reinforced concepts. Her grades improved and we are all really happy with it ... Read more

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When Becca's dad goes off to fight in a war on the other side of the planet, she does her best to live up to his expectations. But then long division hits her like an earthquake and her whole world starts to disintegrate. After years of straight A's, she's failing math. Her baby brother lands in the hospital, her friends turn mean, and her mother is too hassled to help her. Even her hair's a mess. How will Becca survive a journey through this treacherous terrain? Where will she find the tools she needs to untangle the bewildering mysteries of math and put her crumbling life back together? ... Read more

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Great reading!
This book was an easy read and an enjoyable, real to life story.It was especially interesting because our children have all gone through the struggles of long division. It was helpful to see how the character in the book worked her way through.

This book is great!
I loved this book! It not only is an entertaining story but also gives great lessons to kids on how to self-sufficiently solve problems at school as well as at home. A great addition to any school, classroom, or family library! ... Read more

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A worthy follwer to PYRES.
Some writers are worth reading for their prose alone. Or for their plots. But Derek Nikitas tells complicated, heart rending stories that stay with you for weeks afterward and tells them beautifully. A woman seizes a sudden opportunity to find the son she gave away--this is just one of the threads that wind through THE LONG DIVISION. If you're looking for a story with depth to it AND lovely writing, you'll find it here. Writers like Nikitas are elevating crime fiction writing to new heights because they are interested in more than whoduunit.

Read. This. Book.
I've never written a review on amazon, but after seeing the 3 1/2 star rating on this wonderful novel, I felt compelled to finally contribute.

I normally read a lot of literary fiction. I don't like brainless prose. I like character development, characterization, and prose that feels fresh. I read a lot, so when I come across something that truly stands out, that says something.

I first read Derek Nikitas' novel Pyres, which was a refreshing breath of literary writing into what I felt was a cold, dead, wasteland of formulaic genre fiction. I loved that novel so much that I pre-ordered his second novel, The Long Division, here on Amazon.

I was not disappointed. Another reviewer pointed out that the prose gets in the way of the story. This is not the case at all. The prose here is economical. In Pyres there were many thick passages of beautiful prose, but here, Nikitas has pared down his writing and incorporated the use of jump cuts (using film techniques in writing is something I found wholly original and admirable) that sometimes switch scenes even in a line of dialogue. The effect isn't disorientating like you might think; instead, it keeps the pace up and the action high. You can fly through this novel in a few hours. I read the novel in one sitting. It's that intense.

Other reviews do a better job of summarizing the plot. This being my first review, I'd probably just botch it anyway. The important thing here is that Nikitas is one of the only crime writers I've read whose writing ability rivals that of my favorites: Denis Johnson, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Chabon.

If you have any doubt, look at the reviews of his other novel, Pyres. That's a great book, but this one is better. Do yourself a favor. If you have any interest in crime fiction or literary fiction, read this book. You'll be reading a new writer who, after the course of his career, will be remembered as one of the greats.

The story suffers
There is something going on at universities regarding creative writing teachers ... and I now KNOW I don't like it. A novel is a story and as such, that should be the focus--the story; NOT the "creative writing." Here is gimmickry at its best/worst, which is a distraction to the story. The story drew me to the book, one of a reunion between a young mother who gave up her child, and that child, now a teenager. It is a subject that has personal involvement for me. The author uses word, sentence, and paragraph construction that are almost senseless. If you have to go back and reread constantly, which I have had to--the writing is just not working. And further, from the onset I know how this is going to turn out--not well. And further still, I really don't care much for the characters. Here is one example, which has stopped me "cold."

(p.147) "'Calvin!' she cried. The coils in her ears went haywire. She pressed her hands against the dash and locked her elbows so that her arms were the spinner arrow in a kid's board game whipped so hard the blood rushed to fill her fingertips and then when she couldn't think beyond the topsy-turvy outlines the passenger window burst and something brought the car full-stop at the finish of its three-sixty spin."

Full discloser. I am going to begin "teaching" a course "WRITING CREATIVELY" at a community college. Trust me - I am not going to encourage this style of writing. Writing is, at its root, about two things: Having something to say; and then the choices one makes in HOW to say it. The goal, I think, is to be understood, and in some cases to persuade, influence, inform, and/or entertain. This style of writing is a serious distraction to those goals.

"Lifetimes of Vertigo"
Make no mistake about it - Derek Nikitas is a brilliant stylist - an original emerging talent who twists and warps his prose with the atmospherics of Faulkner, the quirkiness of McCarthy, but matched with a readability that neither of these venerable giants can match.For my money, his debut, "Pyres", was the book of the year.But having said that - holy smokes! - if there has ever been a more dark, depressing, and downbeat novel than "The Long Division", I don't remember it.This is "The Road" without an apocalypse, or "Fight Club" reading like Nora Roberts pabulum by comparison.

"The Long Division" is the tale of a half-a-dozen or so fatalistically flawed characters, starting with Atlanta maid Jodie Larkin, heading north with stolen cash and a stolen car, and her 15 year old estranged and agreeably kidnapped son, Calvin, in tow.Seeking Calvin's biological father, Jodie and Cal travel to the desolate frozen wastelands of western New York,a cold setting especially fitting for the dark subject matter.Here we encounter deputy Sam Hartwick, is arguably the most normal of the cast, though hardly the hero.Enter Wynn Johnson, local SUNY student and mathematics savant, who ends up on the wrong end of murder and a stream of vengeful antagonists on both sides of the law, including the haunted deputy Sam.From this already sordid background, the plot spirals even deeper, penetrating the depths of humanity across a wide range of despair, a "search without a solution" across a tortured landscape of theft, murder, sexual identity, terminal cancer, and suicide.

Yeah, well, did I say it was pretty?But it is powerful.Nikitas landscapes are "tall houses crammed at close quarters like mourners at a funeral."While upstate New York's hostile winter "...wind rocked the car like a gang of vandals..." with "rusted fire escapes and empty clotheslines like stripped umbrellas."Sweet.

So like I said, Nikitas can write, but be forewarned: this guy is the master conductor of the train wreck of human carnage - an extraordinary writer who practices his craft in teen angst and wasted lives - the perfect stand-in should Styx farrier Charon need a day off.If you're looking for an upbeat story, you're on the wrong page.But for an exciting new benchmark in American literature, make sure Derek Nikitas is on your short list.

"She wondered whose reckoning this was and when the mercy would start."


One moment, one impulsive action and events are set in motion that result in a final, terrible reckoning. Jodie Larkin, a lonely housecleaner, grabs a stack of hundred dollar bills from a home where she is working. Thus begins a journey that will take her from Atlanta to Philadelphia to Weymouth, New York in a hapless trail of mistakes and misjudgments. Like the other wounded characters in this compelling novel, Jodie is running on instinct and desperation- in her case towards the son she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago. Meanwhile, in Weymouth, New York, Deputy Sam Hartwick, looks the other way and accepts a bribe as a favor to an estranged brother and sister. Wynn Johnston is along for the ride, a friend of the brother, in love with the sister, who has changed from childhood sweetheart to unrecognizable addict, the sweet memories of youth obliterated by drugs. An emotion-sparked moment, gunfire rings, brother and sister are dead, Wynn escaping the filthy trailer along with the druggies. Now Wynn has vengeance on his mind and memories on his heart.

Wynn, a student and mathematics major at SUNY retreats to the comfort of formulas as his world spirals out of control, the author perfectly capturing the young man's distress as well as Jodie's urgency to meet her son, Calvin. Calvin has his own troubles, easily seduced by his mother into running away, perhaps to meet the father he has never known. All of Nikitas's characters are etched in misery, from Jodie's bumbling attempt to bond with Calvin to Deputy Hartwick's beleaguered family, facing a challenge none of them can bear and Wynn's abject confusion in the face of painful loss. All are caught in a jerky dance that propels them towards one another by way of a stolen vehicle, stolen son and finally stolen moments as the pushers rage in defense of territory, bullets flying, bodies falling. Law enforcement plods nearer vital connections and a final, tragic confrontation on Hartwick's frozen front lawn in Weymouth.

The author embraces six degrees of separation, twining people and events in a drama that is striking and driven. Jodie and Calvin forge tentative bonds, guilt intrudes and fate conspires, the two stumbling towards the only place left to go. One cannot help but feel compassion for Jodie, Calvin, Wynn, Sam and his extraordinary wife, Jill, the gun-wielding drug dealers a reminder that Sam has made a serious mistake in judgment, Wynn compounding the danger. As fraught with faults as any real-life protagonists, this gallery of souls in need of a mercy is particularly compelling, all fighting to survive an indifferent world, past mistakes rising like a phoenix, demanding resolution, the ties of family sundered and repaired, dreams shattered in a moment of final, heartbreaking violence. Nikitas is a masterful puppeteer, his characters flying from present to past to present in a drama that reads like a Greek tragedy, devastating and memorable. Luan Gaines/2009.
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Don’t Just Learn Division … Master It! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, paper, and pencil. Inside Dazzling Division, you’ll learn the basics of division and then quickly begin to solve division problems. You’ll find out what divisors, dividends, and quotients are and how to look at division as simply putting items into groups. Once you’ve grasped these basics, you’ll practice your skills with such fun games and activities as Division Tic-Tac-Toe, Off to the Races, and Three-in-a-Row Bingo. Finally, you can move on to become truly dazzling at division by mastering the mysteries of remainders, prime numbers, and long division while playing Prime Mania and Shout It Out! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master! ... Read more

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A winsome novel-as-memoir about what happens to a young teacher left by her boyfriend to her own devices

Annie Harper is a twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher when her soldier-boyfriend, David, is sent overseas. Determined to record her desolate and devoted hours, she begins a memoir that she imagines will be a tender homage to "all the women at home." Instead, Annie misses David but finds herself. Told through Annie's memoir-in- progress, Long Division vividly renders the inner life of a quirky young woman stuck between what she really feels and what she thinks she should.

Readers of Curtis Sittenfeld and Marisa de los Santos-as well as the many real-life women left awaiting a soldier's return-will be captivated by Jane Berentson's quirky and wonderfully refreshing debut novel. ... Read more

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A collection of sixteen short stories provides an extraordinary journey into the human soul that explores the uneasiness of individuals as they cope with experiences outside of themselves. A first collection. ... Read more

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This sequel to Donald J. Ratcliffes Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic investigates the origins of the important series of political contests now known as the Second Party System. Whereas recent historians claim that the mass parties of the antebellum era emerged in the 1830s, Ratcliffe argues that already by 1828 the battle lines had been laid down in Ohio that would dominate local and national politics until the eve of the Civil War, and even persist into the twentieth century.

This cleavage in popular political loyalties first emerged, Ratcliffe contends, in the wake of the Missouri crisis and the Panic of 1819. In 1824 the struggle to control the federal government saw many voters make choices to which they subsequently clung. Then in 1828, with the rise of the Jacksonian opposition, the excitements of the first closely contested presidential election in Ohio brought unprecedented numbers of voters into the electoral contest.

The choices that voters made at this critical time reflected, in part, the energetic organizational work of ambitious politicians and the persuasive scurrility of the media. But, more significantly, it revealed not only the economic hopes and political attachments but also the cultural attitudes, ethnic antagonisms, and social tensions that divided Ohioans in the much- neglected decade of the 1820s. ... Read more

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An exciting new twist to educational sing-alongs! These songs are designed not only to help students master basic concepts, they are also to be performed by students for other students, teachers and parents. Useful for assemblies, parent meetings, open house and other special events. Includes a performance/accompaniment cassette of the concept songs. ... Read more

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(Institute of Medicine) Comprehensive examination of long-term care today. Explores the quality of long-term care in nursing homes, health agencies, and other care settings, describing the state of care and identifying problem areas. Also looks at the populations that use long-term health care, identifying their needs, as compared to past populations. DNLM: Long-Term Care--United States. ... Read more

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Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, Memorious and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, The Cartographer's Vacation, received the Owl Creek Poetry Prize; other honors include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmertrain's Short Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about marine research at MIT. ""...an ideal and recommended introduction for those new to her poetic style, and a welcome update for those previously familiar with her work...""--Midwest Book Review. ... Read more

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"What Would You Like On Your Desert Island?""Who wants to know? The god who marooned me or the god who plots my rescue?"
This poetry collection by Andrea Cohen is different--special--so fresh, so accessible, and so exciting in its imagery, irony, humor, and honest sentiment, that time became irrelevant for me when I was reading.In the course of three hours, I was laughing, smiling in knowing agreement at new insights, loving the "a-ha" moments when I finally "got" what the poet's image was all about, weeping at the unvarnished treatment of death in some poems which evoked sorrows of my own, and loving the intimacy of sharing so many events with a woman I had never met but now know better than some of my "closest" friends.

Cohen's writing is absolutely clear (no fuzzy images and contorted syntax) and clean in its structure--the poems are composed, not the result of unstructured free writing in which the poet so often celebrates himself and the primacy of his every utterance.The poems often consist of stanzas of equal lengths, with a single line at the end to secure the final idea and give it emphasis. "Current Events," for example, consists of three-line stanzas, each line having three stresses, as the poet lists perfect moments in time--Asian pears at peak, starlings stringing their nests with hairnet and Christmas lights, a paperboy happy at the weight of his papers, following them with a single line, ordering the reader to "praise, and praise, and praise."

Andrea Cohen is a communicator, a woman who speaks from the heart without treacly sentiment, a poet so skilled in all the arts of poesy that she can match her metrics to the cadences of everyday speech.In the quotation from "In a Haystack," for example, six two-stress lines are read as one easily understood sentence, without all the pauses and heavy beats of most nineteenth century poetry and without the blankness of much twentieth century verse.Many poems offer unique points of view.A poem written from the point of view of a needle is amusing in its own right, and in this case the needle is on an adventure, imagining its "one good eye [filled] with the filament of pasture," or itself as "pillow to the weary.""To an Ant Fallen in the Salt Shaker" is a humorous reminder to an ant, who may have been looking for sugar instead, that the sweetness [of life] requires hard work."Flying Fish" considers the predicament of a fish who feels that he is neither fish nor fowl."Limbo" he says, "is hell upon a fish," a symbolic image which can have many meanings.

Many poems recall Cohen's childhood, her family, and the important moments in her early life in the South--saying thank you the trash pick-up man, the time she had show-and-tell and demonstrated glass-cutting with disastrous results, the time she was bitten by a snake and needed an "anti-boat," and the time the family car killed an eight-point buck.But many other poems are from adult life, a heart-stopping poem on the death of her brother, the senility of her grandfather, the killing of the animals in the zoo in Palestine, and issues of love: While loving and losing is hard, "to have loved and never/ had, to be chained/ to the imagined, its expense/ account without bounds,"that's harder still.Andrea Cohen is a poet whose clarity of vision and imagery combines with the clean structure of her language and verse to create poems which communicate on all levels, some of them humorous, some of them achingly sad, and all of them unique. nMary Whipple

The Cartographer's Vacation

A Note from the Publisher
Andrea Cohen's poems and stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, Glimmertrain, The Iowa Review, Memorious and elsewhere. Her first poetry collection, The Cartographer's Vacation, received the Owl Creek Poetry Prize; other honors include a PEN Discovery Award and Glimmertrain's Short Fiction Award. She directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes about marine research at MIT.



Praise for Long Division:

"Lyric compression and a wonderful command of the plain style make Andrea Cohen one of a handful of poets who can make her voice the conscious echo of her mind. And it's a mind well furnished with whimsy, heartbreak, and moral questioning, a mind brilliantly attuned to the tragicomic, Kafkaesque nature of the day to day. But unlike Kafka, these poems don't end in conundrum, paradox, and irresolution -- they also partake of the comprehensive affections of a writer like Chekhov, as unsparing as they are forgiving, resolute that their ironies not stop at irony but give a full account of our need for love, sex, personal identity, and spiritual understanding."
(Tom Sleigh)

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"Current Events," a beautiful poem by Andrea Cohen, has praise of pears rotting from fruit to artifact in a bowl, and for a punctual soprano singing off-key, and for cicadas playing their furious music at dusk, and for spring, whose cancellation or postponement has not yet been announced, for the bounty of the innocent treasured here
and now, praise and praise and praise.
The poems in her book are a bounty in this way and it is a bounty of the innocent and the innocent is treasured here and now, and praised, in poem after poem. The things of this world are in these poems -- children, birds, fish, an ant caught in a sugar bowl, two lovers listening for and not hearing the cry or howl of a grey fox whose suffering they'd witnessed earlier, she herself seen in a shape-shifting fun house mirror, a wedding dress of peacock feathers, lit by a mangled paper lantern. It's the unblameable beauty and variety, of creatures, children, trees, artifacts, bounty that's always seen and heard in the condition of what you might call their joyful vulnerability. The book is bountiful too in the variety and skill of its versification. There are many different and pleasurable kinds of music in these poems." (David Ferry)

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"I have been searching/for a mineral/that drowns want." Maybe I like these poems as much as I do because I've been searching for the same mineral (no luck), or because they're smart and varied in subject and style, or because I feel, in each one, a powerful mixture of curiosity and invention. By the end of the book, I want no end to the book, and there it is again, desire and what to do with it in a world Andrea Cohen has made me see differently." (Bob Hicok)

An ideal and recommended introduction for those new to her poetic style
Andrea Cohen is an award winning poet and short story writer whose work has been published in the pages of 'The Atlantic Monthly', 'The Threepenny Review', 'Glimmertrain', 'The Iowa Review', 'Memorious', and elsewhere. An accomplished professional and an experienced academic, Andrea Cohen directs the Blacksmith House Reading Series and writes on the subject of marine research at MIT. "Long Division" is her latest collection of free verse and is an ideal and recommended introduction for those new to her poetic style, and a welcome update for those previously familiar with her work in her Owl Creek Poetry Prize winning anthology "The Cartographer's Vacation" (Owl Creek Press, 9780937669631, $12.00). 'Detective X: Temptation to Believe': Dumbstruck in the awesome/forest, spring leaping up through loam,//fiddleheads unfurling like giddy seahorse/under the green awnings of scotch pines//that don't close shop, one wants/to applaud, to throw or to be//roses, to address a thank-you moat/to those responsible, to imagine//such splendor is never random,/and then, dizzy beneath the cornflower sky,//I apprehend how lost I am. ... Read more

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Various approaches to teaching long division are investigated- all levels of the long division process are covered using practice activities and story problems ... Read more

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Chapters: Divisor, Division by Two, Divisibility Rule, Fraction, Division by Zero, Synthetic Division, Division Algorithm, Long Division, Trial Division, Galley Division, Remainder, Obelus, Polynomial Long Division, Short Division, Fourier Division, Quotient. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A divisibility rule is a shorthand way of discovering whether a given number is divisible by a fixed divisor without performing the division, usually by examining its digits. Although there are divisibility tests for numbers in any radix, and they are all different, we present rules only for decimal numbers. The rules given below transform a given number into a generally smaller number while preserving divisibility by the divisor of interest. Therefore, unless otherwise noted, the resulting number should be evaluated for divisibility by the same divisor. For divisors with multiple rules, the rules are generally ordered first for those appropriate for numbers with many digits, then those useful for numbers with fewer digits. If the result is not obvious after applying it once, the rule should be applied again to the result. First, take any number (for this example it will be 376) and note the last digit in the number, discarding the other digits. Then take that digit (6) while ignoring the rest of the number and determine if it is divisible by 2. If it is divisible by 2, then the original number is divisible by 2. Ex. First, take any number (for this example it will be 492) and add together each digit in the number (4 + 9 + 2 = 15). Then take that sum (15) and determine if it is divisible by 3. If the final number is divisible by 3, then the original number is divisible by 3. If a number is a multiplication of 3 consecutive numbers then that number is always...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=991210 ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more