do you remember how to do long division?

[VernalLapin]

i don’t. i try to avoid math as much as possible tbh because it makes me cry ^^;

 

[-Apples-]

Yep, I still do. I may be much further in Math than an average person my age is, but I can still do the basic stuff.

 

[Corrie]

Absolutely not LOL. It's wild what you forget when you don't use it.

 

[Croconaw]

I do remember. There are some things I learned in school that I really don’t remember how to use and that’s because I haven’t used it in day to day life. I do think knowing English and basic math is important, however, so long division has stuck with me. It’s important to note that one of my family members is a math teacher, so it was obviously my best subject with that type of pressure, LOL.

 

[Midoriya]

Seeing as my line of work closely relates to the financial field and there's a lot of numbers that go into it, yeah, I know how to do long division still.

That being said, I absolutely despise math as a subject. I don't know if it's because I had bad teachers and professors or not when I was in school, but I dreaded anything to do with math all the time. However, I usually scored high grades/marks in said subject. Not because I like it, but because I wanted to spite the people who do love it. X)

 

[Belle T]

I thought I did until I saw this thread, went to try my hand at some sample questions just to show off, and then realized I had no idea what I was doing.

 

[Xara]

Not even a little, LOL. I’ve honestly forgotten how to do a lot of the math branches I learnt in school now that I haven’t had to do any of them in almost a year. I remember all of the basic stuff ofc, and could easily reteach myself the branches I’ve forgotten if I ever need/want to, but right now my mind’s at a blank lol

Math was actually one of my best subjects in school and I enjoyed doing it, but my brain quickly forgets how to do things when I don’t do them for a bit, no matter what it is. It just takes me a couple weeks of not doing something, and poof, knowledge’s gone. Every year of taking math was basically just a refresher of past years, because I had learnt how to do all of the branches in the past, I had just forgotten because of disuse.

 

[~Kilza~]

I remember. Even if I don't use long division that much these days, it's pretty simple and straightforward for me to do.

 

[mogyay]

can't remember if i never knew in the first place

 

[Roxxy]

I remember how as it was drilled into me at school long division was BODMAS (brackets, of, divide, multiplication, addition, subtraction)

 

[Seastar]

I can't even remember what long division is... The name sounds familiar, but that's it.
I forgot how to do a bunch of things because I absolutely do not use them, especially Algebra.
I can remember some multiplication, if that matters in any way. But even then I start doubting my memory (because it's not great) and look for a calculator just to be sure.

 

[daringred_]

i do remember how to do it, all the way from primary school, but i'm pretty sure the way we were taught was not the right (or at least most convenient/speedy?) method because i also remember then getting to secondary school and being like this every time my math teachers did division on the board because i had no clue what the hell they were doing while everyone else did

Spoiler

we were taught to divide by writing out the multiplication table for the number we were dividing by, and count how many times it went into the other number. so say we were dividing 144 by 12, you would write out 1-10 multiplied by 12, subtract the 120, giving you 10, since that's 10x12, and then subtract the remaining 24, giving you 2, since that's 2x12. then you would add the 2 and 10, giving you 12 as your answer. (12 goes into 144 12 times.) do not remember what the hell we did with decimals in this scenario. so, like, we basically just did reverse multiplication instead of actual division. meanwhile my secondary school teachers were doing the bus stop method or w/e, and i had no experience in it and none of them Ever explained once in five years lmao because they all assumed i was taught it the same way. on the bright side, i still got marks for using this Bad method in exams, and i'm pretty good at division in my head because of it.

 

[Beanz]

no, i never understood it in the first place. it’s kind of a stupid concept imo, and i don’t understand the point of it. basically useless unless you’re in middle school lmao

 

[Squidward]

Yes, I actually had to use it on an university exam recently as I was completely unprepared and had no idea we were supposed to bring a calculator. Turns out I passed the exam because of it!

 

[QueenCobra]

I only remember the beginning, and that one of my math teachers had a saying to help us remember the steps in detail, “Does McDonald’s Sell Cheeseburgers Raw?” (the beginning the letter of each word signifying a step), but I don’t remember what the steps were. I also have a learning disability in math, so I mostly remembering spending a long time doing it— just not the specifics behind it.

 

[VernalLapin]

I only remember the beginning, and that one of my math teachers had a saying to help us remember the steps in detail, “Does McDonald’s Sell Cheeseburgers Raw?” (the beginning the letter of each word signifying a step), but I don’t remember what the steps were. I also have a learning disability in math, so I mostly remembering spending a long time doing it— just not the specifics behind it.

that acronym awoke the tiniest dustiest space in my memory lol. i don't remember it having "raw" but that might just be me lol

 

[QueenCobra]

that acronym awoke the tiniest dustiest space in my memory lol. i don't remember it having "raw" but that might just be me lol

Now, I remember she added "raw" to stand for "review" so we could check our work before turning it in. I think that was probably it.

 

[Shawna]

Long division is unless in life for most of us (myself included), so I forgot years ago. I never really got it to begin with.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I never learned how to do it lmaoooo

really though, I think I was supposed to learn it in like 4th or 5th grade? but I was in homeschooling at the time, so I never actually learned it. not that it really matters, I got through school just fine without it haha.

 

[kiwikenobi]

Does long division mean something other than what I think it does? I didn't think it was that complicated of a thing to need a mnemonic. I also dislike math, so it's not because I like it that I remember it. You just figure out how many times the number on the left of the thingy goes into the number on the right of the thingy, right? ^o^;>

I mostly use it when playing video games, calculating amounts of money or items that I'll need to buy or gather or something.