From: <culfran1@primus.com.au>
To: Teacher2Teacher Service
Date: Oct 24, 2000 at 21:39:36
Subject: Decomposition in math subtraction

I am trying to teach my daughter the decomposition method for subtraction-
where the bottom number is higher than the top number. Using base 10 
materials is working.  I am surprisingly having a lot of success with her 
verbalizing the process. We are only working on 2 digits at the moment.

My problem is that when I started to use this method in 5 and 6 digit numbers
with lots of zeros, I couldn't do it with success very often.  I especially
came into trouble with lots of zeros in a row.

You help is greatly appreciated.

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