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So far, everyone is in agreement that using remainders when dividing is not a good concept.  Now we need to spread the word further.  How might we do this? 

Remainders when dividing

I am curious.  Should we teach primary school students to use the remainder concept when dividing.  ie divide 26 by 5 and you have 1 left.  Should we teach students to write “r1″ or “1/5″?