Grammar makes a comeback:

[WickedLou9]

Originally Posted by 7960

Start on the left and add moving right...there's no carrying. If you learn that way it's easier. Like I said, I taught math and thought this Everyday Math thing was insane. She didn't know I was a teacher when I went to the workshop and at the end I realized how kids' brains could find this easier if they started learning to add this way. Later (I'd been volunteering in the classroom for months) she asked what I did because my son mentioned something about me having taught. I told her I was a HS math teacher and she said "oh, so you hate this new math then?" and i said "no, I hated the other 'new math', this one seems to work."

"new math" for those who don't know what I'm talking about
New math - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yeah my wife said by the end of the year, her second graders can add 3 digit numbers in thier heads. I can't do that. Well I probably could but it would take some thought and concentration.

[Publius]

Originally Posted by 7960

Start on the left and add moving right...there's no carrying. If you learn that way it's easier. Like I said, I taught math and thought this Everyday Math thing was insane. She didn't know I was a teacher when I went to the workshop and at the end I realized how kids' brains could find this easier if they started learning to add this way. Later (I'd been volunteering in the classroom for months) she asked what I did because my son mentioned something about me having taught. I told her I was a HS math teacher and she said "oh, so you hate this new math then?" and i said "no, I hated the other 'new math', this one seems to work."

"new math" for those who don't know what I'm talking about
New math - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yea I understand how it works, and I see how it is easier for kids learning it ... But it just seems weird to me.