Still thinking about some of the salient points at the @KSJatMIT #KSJ40 anniversary weekend. Especially the great panel on #racism in #science and the @undark #longdivision special issue. https://race.undark.org/

The most melodius punk song

#Fugazi #LongDivision

https://song.link/i/49249916

Hand on heart: who here, honestly, without any prior research [to learn what the hell i'm even talking about] or practice [to polish a long-dormant skill], could today, if presented with a mathematical question, solve it using [any or all of]:

1. pencil, paper, long-division & multiplication, BOMDAS?
2. log-tables
3. slide-rule

🤨

#LongDivision #LogTables #SlideRule #mathematics

Subsidiary question: how many more years/decades before nobody alive knows any of those? 🤷‍♀️

« In #mathematics #education, #chunking is an elementary approach for solving simple #division.

Compared to the #ShortDivision and #LongDivision methods that are traditionally taught, #chunking may seem strange, unsystematic, and arbitrary. However, it is argued that #chunking […] gives a better introduction to #division, in part because the focus is […] on the whole #calculation and its meaning, rather than just rules for generating successive digits. »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunking_(division)