Long Division–the even longer way

Like a lot of parents, I am terrified of my child’s homework. Not only did I do enough of it as a child (or maybe not enough of it, if you look at my old report cards), I don’t know HOW to do his. Half of what he does is computer, or tablet based, and I am just excited when I can figure out how to dump a YouTube video into a blog entry from my phone (see below.)

We had a math meltdown the other night, when I tried to help Thor with long division. I took a glance at the way he was doing it, an...