New math!!!!!!!!! My son came home one day and asked me to help with his math. The problem was something like this: what is 2478 divided by 127, estimate the answer. Now, I am an estimator by trade, and told him to put down 1 for the answer. He said that was not right. I told him it was just an estimate, not a very good one, but an estimate nontheless. I then told him that if his teacher marks the question wrong, to politely tell this to her. He got the question marked correct.
OMG! Yeah estimation! I have heard of this!! If nothing else on earth MATH is an exact science. There is no estimation in math. morons
And why the heck when they teach long division do they not just come out and tell kids that its a bunch of guessing??/ That it ain't like adding and multiplying which has rules.
parsy, who wonders why we waste much time on long division anyway. And algebra. And science fairs.
LOL