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To: GeronL

This ain’t nothing compared to how they teach division?


23 posted on 03/22/2014 12:26:28 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Java4Jay

They probably use multiplication to divide, first we turn all these numbers into fractions class and then...


24 posted on 03/22/2014 12:27:51 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Java4Jay

I taught a teenager long division a few years ago. She showed me how she was taught to do division and I was dumb founded. I majored in math and I had not the slightest idea of how she was supposed to divide. It took me two hours of pounding into her head how to do long division. While I was teaching her I realized she could not do multiplication. If you can’t multiply division is really hard. And she was an honor student! Can’t do 6th grade math and you’re an honor student in 11th grade? WTF!


35 posted on 03/22/2014 12:36:59 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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