The new Common Core Standards for Math prompted me to create this Divisibility Rules Pack for use in my own classroom. Common Core emphasizes the need to develop mental math strategies with students.  Understanding the divisibility rules will allow students

As we are all discovering, the new Common Core Standards for Math stress the importance of teaching students a variety of strategies for a particular skill.  It is then up to the student to choose which strategy they feel most

Teaching students how to do long division can prove to be quite challenging regardless of the algorithm used.  Even more challenging is getting parents on board with any strategy that varies from the standard algorithm. I find that the partial