Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 04, 2011
October 03, 2011
October 05, 2011
Transcript:
Mrs. Olsen: What is wrong with you kids? None of you carried the 3. Boy: It's like your morning drive, Mrs. Olsen. If everybody is offending you with a single digit, maybe it's you. I've never enjoyed long division this much. Frazz: I've never had this much fun hearing about driving.
perceptor3 over 12 years ago
She IS the one with the 40 mph preset speed. . .
palepink Premium Member over 12 years ago
If you’re doing long division, you have to do a bunch of multiplication and a bunch of subtraction.
runar over 12 years ago
You’re right.
prrdh over 12 years ago
In the long division algorithm I learned, you ‘carry down’ the next digit in the dividend next to the remainder from each successive subtraction.
Cathy38c over 12 years ago
I hate division!!! Thank God for the Calculator.
Varnes over 12 years ago
Well, it is the digital age….
wwh85cp over 12 years ago
And nobody wonders what digit Caulfield is referring to? I only wonder which hand it’s on.
Slaywraith over 12 years ago
The sad part is, with education being what it is, no one remembers how to do long division anymore. I was in high school in ‘93 and didn’t have a calculator in one math class. So out came some scrap paper and I quickly jotted down a long division equation to do my work. When I looked up, the 6 kids sitting around me were all staring at me oddly. One leaned over and asked what I was doing, so I told him.
“Where’d you learn to do that?” is what he asked me. (This was a Grade 11 Math class.)
You have no idea how difficult it was to keep from beating my head on my desk in frustration.