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What is short division? I only remember being taught long division and having a calculator. Is there another method?
by abakker 7y ago
What is short division? I only remember being taught long division and having a calculator. Is there another method?
- Tomte 7y agoFascinating. I didn't know, either. After looking at the English Wikipedia I found that a) what I learned in school is long division b) the notation with the dividend and the divisor separated by a parenthesis and the result on top of a horizontal bar is totally alien to me c) I've never seen short division before d) the German Wikipedia doesn't even have an article about short division
- jacobush 7y agoThanks! What you said, except my own point d) that Swedish Wikipedia tells that apparently short division is also used in Swedish elementary schools now.
- jeltz 7y agoI went to elementary school in the 90s and we were taught both long and short.
- shantly 7y agoHoly shit, I didn’t realize the shorter way of writing long division that I invented in early elementary school because I got sick of taking up so much space and introducing copying error potential had a name!
- beatgammit 7y agoInteresting, I'll start using that short version now. I always hated the long version because it took up a ton of vertical space and I didn't need the extra verbosity. In fact, I'll probably teach me kid that method when he gets to division in school.
- marakv2 7y agoFrom my quick google it's arriving at the answer, without the step by step process of calculating each division. Edit: although if someone else can explain it better I'd really like to know. From what I have searched,(quickly mind you), it seems to be a mind set.
- nwah1 7y agoProbably is that New Math that Tom Lehrer warned us about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA