Everyone went to maths

Everyone went to maths, but not everyone liked it. Those who were good at maths studied with pleasure and tried hard. Some solved endless examples, but got confused and lost their way.

Of course, everyone learned the primary school programme, most of them only needed it. What do we need? To measure fractions from a recipe in our own kitchen, to calculate interest in a bank. Find out if the seller at the market cheated. We don’t solve logarithms every day.

All the other maths has disappeared from memory, settled somewhere in the depths of the brain. And now we can no longer do a quick calculation in our heads, we have to do it thoroughly, with pen and paper.

Or the calculator on your phone.

Let’s go back to second grade, here’s an example. Can you figure it out?

The first thing you have to do is do the action in the brackets. That makes two.

Then we do the operations on the dash-division in order. That makes 24.

That’s pretty much it.

We divide 24 by six and we get 4.

We can do it the other way round, do you see it?

Did you solve the example? Write the answer in the comments…

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