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Yeah, when we were taught short and long division I had the same question and it was not until quite late in high school we got the explanation. I went to scho
by jeltz 7y ago
Yeah, when we were taught short and long division I had the same question and it was not until quite late in high school we got the explanation.
I went to school in Sweden where we do teach all this things, but in a strange order.
- hashmush 7y agoWent to school in Sweden too in the 90-00s. I wasn't taught long division until I had to divide polynomials in my last year of high school, and that course was an elective.
- mavhc 7y agoApart from the long division method pointing out that division is just repeated subtraction, that's the only reason to use it.