https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1775754564727341345

  • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    Things like number construction to get kids to understand how numbers work rather than just memorizing that 7+5=12.

    So they will now teach kids that 7+5 can be rewritten as (5+2)+5 which can then be turned into 5+5+2=12.

    It's no different than when parents threw a massive fit about "new math" in the 60's when kids learned how to "borrow" from the 10's place to do subtraction like 62-8