In case somebody needs a calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oof, that is impressive!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (I think “division is just repeated subtraction” is a great explanation of what division is on a fundamental level. 🤯 Well, if they did explain it that way in elementary school, I didn’t listen that day. 😂)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely! Truly amazing work and excellent explanations.

I’m pretty sure they didn’t tell us this in school either.

I don’t remember what topic it was, but some of the maths lectures at uni were heaps better in linking several matters together. In school we were always told: And now for something completely different, we start a new topic, so when you kids haven’t understood the previous one, worry not, now you got the chance to maybe get this one and improve your maths grade. Only at uni we were actually taught that it’s in fact basically exactely the same thing as something else, just with some slightly tweaked rules. If I only were told this a decade earlier or so. It would have made stuff sooo much easier.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, I feel the same way, although it’s hard to tell in retrospect after so many years. 😅 Maybe our teachers actually did a good job and I just didn’t get it back then. I wish I could go back in time and re-watch all that, to see what it was actually like. 😃