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No. 317
First of all, why the fuck are you embarrassed? You never learned it, simple as that. Anyone who would look down on you for that should be pushed over and puked on.
One thing, you say "the way" of doing things but that's just silly. There's a lot of ways of doing arithmetic. Trying different methods will help you understand what you're doing better. I hate that "make the 0 a 10" thing. But I'm kind of bad at arithmetic. I'd look at it like "adding .85 to that .15 gets me to 34, and another 6 makes 40. Then 20 gets me to 60, and another .05 gets me to 60.05. Then adding those up gets me the difference between the numbers, which is what I'm looking for.
that weird math-shame gets in peoples' way a lot and I just don't see the point of it. at least you have an interest, while learning fundamentals. that's all that matters. But yeah, khanacademy, patrickjmt, whatever. The biggest thing is to just Do Problems It is not like other subjects where you can just absorb it, you get a much deeper understanding by working through problems.
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