• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    It’s also funny because that new math while unintuitive to adults is great at making math more intuitive. It teaches you to understand mathematical relationships and build number sense

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      It’s even funnier because Common Core is another attempt to make arithmetic more intuitive, and is treated much like New Math by the generation that learned New Math as simply “math”