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                        Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
                                        
Just … just … just … 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth [1](video via Flutterby [2])

This is how kids are learning math these days?

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Granted, as a student I kept asking what, exactly, was the point of learning
my multiplication tables, but I did it anyway. And I cheated all through
fourth grade mathematics (which may have eventually led me to repeat pre-
algebra in 8^th grade), but the techniques discussed here appear to make the
traditional method of long division appear easy and straightforward.

I seriously doubt that I would have “found” the way to do long division on my
own.

And describe two ways of solving 36 ÷ 6?

Um … 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

I am so glad to be out of school, these days.

Updated on Wednesday, June 13^th, 2007

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