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[–] 6 points 2 years 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

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