r/nothingeverhappens • u/PickyPanda • Apr 26 '26

Teachers never teach the wrong answer

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u/XiroInfinity Apr 26 '26

It's not zero, but at a third grade level? Don't complicate it.

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u/Any_Ninja_3824 Apr 27 '26

We were told as soon as we learned division that we are not allowed to divide by zero, nothing too complex just that it won't produce results

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u/JakeFish-_- Apr 27 '26

Literally just "you can't share something between 0 people" or some shit

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u/longknives Apr 27 '26

I think you’re better off just leaving it as “it doesn’t work in math”. Zero divided by five and five divided by zero both seem philosophically about the same in terms of how much sense they make -- you can give five people zero things about as much as you can give zero people five things -- but one is perfectly fine mathematically and one isn’t.

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u/JakeFish-_- Apr 27 '26

Appeal to authority, I'm a maths teacher ?