Comments on: Does anyone actually use long division?

By: katie with an e

katie with an e — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:24:51 +0000

i often worry about my dependence on google. if the world wide web crashes one day how will i find anything out? i might actually have to think for myself... oh no!

By: Stevenup7002

Stevenup7002 — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:38:43 +0000

I posed this question to my Math teacher the other day (Im in 2nd year (8th Grade)) Will we ever actually use algebra in the real world. Now, I'm a fluent programmer and I once thought, I could program better if I learned algebra in school. But since the start of doing Algebra 1, I realised ,this has absolutely nothing to do with programming, and I see no use for it either. I also posed the same question to my Irish teacher, I like learning Irish, but there really is no use for it in the real world, unless you go to the gaelteacht.. but I doubt I ever will. So do we really need to learn these subjects in school? I think not.. history is the same, we don't need to learn it, but it is interesting. Long division is not interesting, there are certain parts of Math that are important, why are we wasting time on things that we'll never use? If we really wanted to learn somthing, we can google it.

-Steven.

By: sommer

sommer — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:25:45 +0000

i am not sure but i know if i dont learn it i could fail 5th grade.

By: ashley coelho

ashley coelho — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:39:34 +0000

i never use long division i always just grab a calculater but my teacher just asked me today to do division the long way oh come on its so time consuming…

By: John August

John August — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:04:54 +0000

By "long division" I mean the process in which you write the numerator beside the denominator, make a bracket, then sequentially figure out how many times the numerator "goes into" section of the denominator.

Obviously, division matters, but does the process of long division really benefit most people in everyday life?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 19:50:04 +0000

All math is very important and long division! because of Algebra and Calculus. It’s in the world around us and in everything that happens even as I type on this machine it’s happening. Not to understand it is to let objects control us! Happy Calulating

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:24:25 +0000

I have several calculators. They are strategicly located to defend me incase of an attack by the division monster. If I ever need to do long division just shot me.

By: Jeb

Jeb — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:40:44 +0000

I regularly use division to calculate my car's gas mileage.

Also, I suspect long division is frequently used in calculating per screen averages.

But in general, I think that you're right. Most division in everyday life is handled by muliplying fractions. However, you can't work with fractions without knowing division.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:28:07 +0000

I got taught it again upon joining the army to work out antenna lengths when changing frequency (and even then I generally just estimated because its always raining here in the UK).

But if ever I need an exact answer and I don't have an actual calculator handy, I use my mobile phone. It must be at least 10 years since I walked into a room that contained people but didn't contain a mobile phone.

Using my brain would only ever be a last, desperate measure. Funny how that applies to so many areas of my life.

By: Miles

Miles — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:49:53 +0000

I’m guessing that anyone of the gazillions of people involved in making sure residual payments get made use division quite often. Doncha think?

By: David Mulholland

David Mulholland — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 05:11:39 +0000

Long what?