Common core thread
Easton Young
Logan Walker
Both methods are valid but the common core is convoluted as fuck. A simple subtraction should not require that many steps & using addition as well.
Show me a kid who naturally thinks like that.
Even autist weird-wired screwballs don't NATURALLY think like that.
Julian Barnes
>But the way they're trying to explain it seems convoluted
26 + 17 = (20 + 6) + (10 + 7) = (20 + 10) + (6 + 7) = 30 + 13 = 43
Christopher Hall
And I'm talking about the problem in OP post