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.
Embedding [3] YouTube [4] videos doesn't quite work for me, and it's not because of the blogging engine [5] I use …
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
[2] http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/10123.html#artid_33884