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The problem is demonstrated by the video in the article. Maths? Here, try some Long Division. You could get yourself a maths degree without even touching long d
by DougBTX 18y ago
The problem is demonstrated by the video in the article. Maths? Here, try some Long Division. You could get yourself a maths degree without even touching long division, but it's the example they use to get people to do maths??
- petercooper 18y agoIndeed. In fact, thanks to this I have discovered that what I was taught as "long division" is not what other people (or, at least, Wikipedia and those in this video) were taught. The method I use still works though, but appears to be more of a dead reckoning system and heavier on the mental arithmetic.
- gaius 18y agoWell that's the thing: maths as taught in (British) schools is interminably dull. Kids are told, you need to learn to add up in case, errr, you work in a shop. Exciting, huh? It wasn't until I was 18 and in college that I first encountered interesting maths, linear programming. It was, literally, mind expanding. Suddenly an entire class of problems that I simply could not think about before were, well, not easy necessarily but possible. An experience like that is needed at a younger age.