Division for Kids - How do you do long division?

Division

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Division is a way of answering the question: how many of these things can I fit into that box? If you divide twelve by three, that's the same as asking this question: if I have a box that will fit twelve things, how many groups of three things will fit in the box? Division is the same thing as multiplication, really, because


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