• GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This is pretty normal, in my opinion. Every time people complain about common core arithmetic there are dozens of us who come out of the woodwork to argue that the concepts being taught are important for deeper understanding of math, beyond just rote memorization of pencil and paper algorithms.

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      6 hours ago

      The problem with common core math isn’t that rounding is inherently bad, it’s that you don’t start with that as a framework.