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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by jeltz on Saturday November 30, 2019 @07:47AM (#21669729)
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.

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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by hashmush on Saturday November 30, 2019 @08:41AM (#21669908)
Went 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.
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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by mavhc on Sunday December 01, 2019 @05:32PM (#21678250)
Apart from the long division method pointing out that division is just repeated subtraction, that's the only reason to use it.
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