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Fifth grade math is harder than it looks.

There's a debate on whether or not Canada should step away from "discovery-based" learning and revert back to the traditional way of memorization to bring up Canada's math scores, according to Global News.

A video from BuzzFeed only backs up that theory when adults attempt to solve grade five math problems, and it takes a really, really long time. Take a look at the clip above!

Let's be honest, it would be hard for many of us to do long division now that we all have calculators on our cellphones.

Canada has fallen behind other countries when it comes to mathematics. Is it time to go back to the good old days?

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