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[โ€“] Maggoty@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Admittedly I was in school multiple decades ago, but our teachers wanted us to memorize addition and multiplication tables. Which of course made anything outside the tables hard to do. I (and others apparently) thought it would be a great idea to use shortcuts like this.

So many failed tests. So many. When teachers saw us write down that we took the 21 apples multiplied by 7 bushels and just did 2x7, and tack a 7 on the end, they broke out the red pen.

[โ€“] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

"Show your work!"

"How? You taught me to memorize, and I did it from memory..."