do you remember how to do long division?

[rocketspruggs]

Nope, I've always hated math. It was already bad enough being homeschooled as a child, because of it.

 

[Bruscoe]

I failed Pre-Calculus twice; once in high school and a second time in college.

After I passed my final Algebra class with a decent grade, math got a WHOLE lot harder for me in my junior year of high school. I was forced to downgrade the class difficulty my senior year in order to receive the minimum credit requirement for graduation. Pre-calculus involved a lot of division and showing work and other crap that I forgot about, and I simply couldn't keep up. Combine that with my early case of senioritis, and it didn't go well.

I tried it again as a summer class at my community college before I transferred to a university for a brief time. This time, I actually tried my best to understand it, and I had a tutor help me as well, but I still failed. Since then, I've never taken a math class again, as I dropped out of said university after a single semester - literally right before the events of 2020 took place - and have never wanted to return to school afterward. I really wish I could explain in detail my thoughts and opinions about secondary schools in general, but that would require a whole different thread.

 

[VernalLapin]

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.

uh honestly i have no idea except that it had the long checkmark symbol thingy and some subtraction ^^;

 

[nightglow]

I remember luckily and surprisingly. I was horrible at math after 8th grade. It was the one weak subject even with a tutor. I'm not sure why. The rest of the subjects I would get As and the occasional B but they never stayed Bs for long.
If I was to go through it again, I feel like I would do better... Maybe.

Teachers often had those sheets of a 100 math problems to do in one minute total every day/week. I always failed those as I can't count in my head and need dots, and it takes me a couple of mins for a problem. But that wasn't my only problem with the math subject.

I still use manual math sometimes.. but I always check it with a calculator later if I do. I usually just use a calculator because I have it.
There has been a few times I needed to use algebraic formulas to solve a irl problem before and basic geometry before.

Now the common core math they teach today I probably can't do. What they teach in schools today is completely different than what my generation was taught.

 

[VernalLapin]

I remember luckily and surprisingly. I was horrible at math after 8th grade. It was the one weak subject even with a tutor. I'm not sure why. The rest of the subjects I would get As and the occasional B but they never stayed Bs for long.
If I was to go through it again, I feel like I would do better... Maybe.

Teachers often had those sheets of a 100 math problems to do in one minute total every day/week. I always failed those as I can't count in my head and need dots, and it takes me a couple of mins for a problem. But that wasn't my only problem with the math subject.

I still use manual math sometimes.. but I always check it with a calculator later if I do. I usually just use a calculator because I have it.
There has been a few times I needed to use algebraic formulas to solve a irl problem before and basic geometry before.

Now the common core math they teach today I probably can't do. What they teach in schools today is completely different than what my generation was taught.

common core math was made by child (and parent)-hating misanthropists! no one remembers how to do it…only the pain that it caused. unfortunately i was subjected to it in middle school. at least we had normal standardized testing up until about 5th grade ;w;

 

[Envy]

It's been over a decade and a half since I took a math course.

I...do not remember how to do long division, no. Not the proudest thing for me to have to admit. I'm always open about how I hate math because I wasn't great at it. Nevertheless, it's embarrassing that I legitimately don't remember long division.

 

[Seastar]

I can't even remember what long division is... The name sounds familiar, but that's it.

Went to Google it and it doesn't look familiar at all nor is my brain able to comprehend it... So that's great.

 

[. Rarity .]

Nope lol. It's been long since forgotten. But I remember doing it alot in school and my head hurting after lol

I am not a fan of math at all lol.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

I think I do, but I do know they changed the way they did math after I graduated from high school. It's been awhile since I did division and I'd probably have to look at it for a little bit before I attempted to do it. I'm not the fondest of the subject math it was never my strong area in school. I wish it was cause I feel like it would have made things a little easier for me but it is what it is.

 

[Zane]

If calculators didn’t exist I’d be done for

 

[Sheando]

I do! I loved certain kinds of math and was very good at it through elementary school, then immediately had a very polarizing experience in high school. Algebra was HARD for me. It was supposed to be the “easier” math but I really struggled. Geometry, which all my classmates despised, was effortless. Which is a little unfair given that you have to take Algebra like four different times and Geometry is a one year experience!

I was an in-home teacher for a large family for three years, and I remember teaching long division to the older kids per their textbook requirements. They were like “what will I possibly get out of this???” I showed them some easier ways to divide, but I also did tell them that hating long division is a shared human experience and that as they aged, they’d at least have that important cultural knowledge! I was like “perhaps you will at least enjoy the long division memes.”

 

[VernalLapin]

I do! I loved certain kinds of math and was very good at it through elementary school, then immediately had a very polarizing experience in high school. Algebra was HARD for me. It was supposed to be the “easier” math but I really struggled. Geometry, which all my classmates despised, was effortless. Which is a little unfair given that you have to take Algebra like four different times and Geometry is a one year experience!

I was an in-home teacher for a large family for three years, and I remember teaching long division to the older kids per their textbook requirements. They were like “what will I possibly get out of this???” I showed them some easier ways to divide, but I also did tell them that hating long division is a shared human experience and that as they aged, they’d at least have that important cultural knowledge! I was like “perhaps you will at least enjoy the long division memes.”

isn’t it funny how a lot of algebra enjoyers despise geometry and vice versa? geometry was relatively easy for me too.

and yes, it’s unfair! i wish we got to choose. though half of one of the algebra years was trigonometry and it was the easiest thing ever ^^ just wish they had an entire class for it!

 

[ali.di.magix]

I don't think I was ever taught to do long division and it kinda annoys me haha. I was always ahead in maths, put into extension classes and all that. But somehow I missed the part of doing long division?? It's like the one part of basic maths that I don't know how to do. As an engineer it makes me sad

 

[kiwikenobi]

I seriously think long division must be something other than what I think it is. It seems so straightforward and useful to me.

Is this not long division?

Just threw this together real quick in my word processor. XD

Don't you just figure out how many of the numbers on the left of the thingy go into the number on the right of the thingy? And then put that amount on top of the thingy? And isn't that useful all the time for knowing how to split up groups of things evenly, or knowing how long something will last if you have X supply and use X amount every X amount of time? I feel like I use this kind of math all the time when playing video games.

And, again, I don't like math. I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. So me liking it can't be the reason why I know how to do it. ^o^;>

Unless I'm completely wrong and thinking of some other math. I'm fully prepared to find out I'm just thinking of the wrong thing.

Or maybe it just always made sense to me somehow. I don't mean to be disparaging to anyone who doesn't get it or doesn't remember it, assuming I'm even correct about the type of math that's being referred to.

 

[Chris]

Yes. I work in a STEM field so it's necessary.

 

[S.J.]

I remember, yes! I wouldn't say I love math, though! My work can be math-heavy, so while I can do long division by hand, it would be pretty inefficient.

 

[Romaki]

I had a refresher on it within like three years ago, so yeah.

 

[Lavamaize]

I do, but for the most part, it either goes into the calculator or stays in fraction form for further problem precision/ease.

 

[daisyflowers]

yeah, bus shelter method!! i don't hit it up that often though, just use a calculator

 

[mocha.]

I had to learn how to do it a few years ago when I redid my maths exam, but I can’t for the life of me remember how to do it now thank goodness for YouTube.