What the actual fork have they done to maths?!

[Gibbon]

Don't they just stick them in the tuck shop after learning their 8 times table anymore? Crisps and chocolate bars at 8p a time means we learnt adding up and taking away and money management skills as well.

Made me the man I am.

And at that point you reached your limit, explains a lot!

[northernladyuk]

And at that point you reached your limit, explains a lot!

He had to deal with sums as big as 12p, even 15p, with his under the counter special menu.

[GJABS]

Amateurs. Every self-respecting mathematician will subtract the log of the denominator from the log of the numerator, and raise ten to the power of the result

[NotAllThere]

Amateurs. Every self-respecting mathematician will subtract the log of the denominator from the log of the numerator, and raise ten to the power of the result

No self-respecting mathematician deals with anything as vulgar as actual numbers.

[vetran]

He had to deal with sums as big as 12p, even 15p, with his under the counter special menu.

let me guess he moved onto working in something that rhymes with Tuckshop?

[northernladyuk]

let me guess he moved onto working in something that rhymes with Tuckshop?

Via the Suckshop (motto: one swallow does not a bummer make)

[SimonMac]

Ability to do long division is useful for factorising equations - which in turn can help with differentiation or integration.

Short division is piss easy if you've learned your times tables off by heart from 1 to 12. No need for any subtractions or anything (at least, not to write down).

8729/7
7 goes into 8 once, so write down 1 
put the remainder 1 next to the 7 ->17
7 goes into 17 twice, so write down 2
put the remainder 3 next to the 2 -> 32
7 goes into 32 four times, so write down 4
put the remainder 4 next to the 9 -> 49
7 goes into 49 seven times, so write down 7.
No remainder, so we're done.
1247.

That’s the way i tried to do it before I was told I was wrong to be fair given it’s his school work I’m going with what he’s been told as being right for him and his teacher

[SimonMac]

Don't they just stick them in the tuck shop after learning their 8 times table anymore? Crisps and chocolate bars at 8p a time means we learnt adding up and taking away and money management skills as well.

Made me the man I am.

I thought it was £sd when you were a lad

[DoctorStrangelove]

I thought it was £sd when you were a lad

It was for me.

[LondonManc]

And at that point you reached your limit, explains a lot!

Being from north of Bury, he had to stop at 12 because he'd run out of fingers.