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Re:Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acce... by auxym on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:30AM (#22915457)
I'm 31 and still remember spending every weeknight doing 1 to 2 hours of long division problems in 5th grade. It was mind nimbingly boring.
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Re:Exceptionally gifted children: long-term outcomes of acce... by mcv on Sunday April 19, 2020 @10:29AM (#22916141)
Long division is also where I switched from being ahead on math to running behind. I could do those in my head and only wrote down the tail because I had to. Divisions that would have been hard enough that I couldn't do them in my head would have helped me a lot there.
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