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by Viliam1234 655 days ago
I knew people who somehow missed the information that fractions are the same as division. So they could e.g. reduce the fraction 40/20 to 4/2, then after thinking about it longer also to 2/1, and... then had no idea what to do next.

For me it was completely mind-blowing, how someone could do fractions without understanding what they are? But I imagine, at school they probably could solve some problems, couldn't solve others, got C, moving on to the next lesson.