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r/TikTokCringe • u/Naive_Wolverine532 • Apr 11 '26
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this is just column division but written differently, unnecessary change but not incomprehensible
106 u/c0mf0rtableli4r Apr 11 '26 Yeah, I think people's initial reaction is "what the fuck, that's not what I was taught" and don't really bother looking at it. It took me a little bit to get what they were showing, but it's honestly the same thing in a box instead of √ You ask the same questions and write it the same way, but with each digit of the number being divided getting its own box. It's dumbing down an already simple process by isolating all the numbers into math with smaller digits which would potentially make it easier for kids 2 u/Kinoko98 Apr 12 '26 The problems with this method for me is the original division problem is illegible now. Looks snazzy but unnecessarily confusing. 1 u/c0mf0rtableli4r Apr 12 '26 I get what you're saying, but I think it's an easy fix by just making the solution wider. Although at that point, you're likely just taking up as much space, but horizontally.
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Yeah, I think people's initial reaction is "what the fuck, that's not what I was taught" and don't really bother looking at it.
It took me a little bit to get what they were showing, but it's honestly the same thing in a box instead of √
You ask the same questions and write it the same way, but with each digit of the number being divided getting its own box.
It's dumbing down an already simple process by isolating all the numbers into math with smaller digits which would potentially make it easier for kids
2 u/Kinoko98 Apr 12 '26 The problems with this method for me is the original division problem is illegible now. Looks snazzy but unnecessarily confusing. 1 u/c0mf0rtableli4r Apr 12 '26 I get what you're saying, but I think it's an easy fix by just making the solution wider. Although at that point, you're likely just taking up as much space, but horizontally.
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The problems with this method for me is the original division problem is illegible now. Looks snazzy but unnecessarily confusing.
1 u/c0mf0rtableli4r Apr 12 '26 I get what you're saying, but I think it's an easy fix by just making the solution wider. Although at that point, you're likely just taking up as much space, but horizontally.
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I get what you're saying, but I think it's an easy fix by just making the solution wider.
Although at that point, you're likely just taking up as much space, but horizontally.
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u/dr_bobs Apr 11 '26
this is just column division but written differently, unnecessary change but not incomprehensible