VAMatt on 27 December 2018
| SvennoJ said: Atm it's all that newfangled school math that's stumping us. Math was very different when we were kids. |
Side note - that newfangled math is exactly the way I've always done it in my head. I had problems in school often because I did math in my head, and couldn't write it out and show my work the way the teachers wanted. Now, they switched it to exactly the same way I wasn't allowed to do it when I was in school.
With that said, I do not think that the new style is better than the old ways. It happened to work well for me because I did it in my head. But, it seems unnecessarily difficult to write it out the new way. I guess most math is real life is done in one's head though.....
