• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Yeah stuff like that really ain’t it. It works in a few use cases, but is objectively wrong and detracts from understanding the topic properly. That’s why I teach percentages as the fractions they are. By the time you learn percentages, you already know multiplying fractions is commutative, so the trick still works, and you also understand why.