Before we start...

The first day we started Chapter 2, we learned about long division which Ms. Joanne (our Advanced Functions teacher) call it "Long way". This "long way" makes everyone in my class burst of laughing because we have a friend in the class called, Long Wei! It's the same pronunciation. Sorry Long Wei, no offense~

Back to the topic, long division is the prerequisite skill for us to learn remainder theorem and factor theorem. We will need it very much in solving polynomial equation in this chapter. 

This might look childish and you take it very easy as you learn it since you were in primary school. But, never underestimate it. It is so important throughout this chapter. Haha!


A brief description:
68 is the dividend;
2 is the divisor;
34 is the quotient;
and 8 is the remainder.


When you are doing long division, you must be very careful. A small careless mistake might get you a wrong answer. So, we must times the divisor and quotient meticulously, and minus the answer carefully.


For more information, go to this link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division. I hope it helps you!


Web resources: Wikipedia, "Long Division", <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_division>


Purplemath, "Polynomial Long Division", <http://www.purplemath.com/modules/polydiv2.htm>