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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in elementary school, I learned basic math that each number had a dot on it and that's how you add and subtract - by counting up or taking away the dots. Many years later, I still do it that way.  I thought that's how everyone was taught but learned later it was some type of new math my school district tried for a while. Anyone else familiar with it?

The reason I'm asking is that my preschooler is showing interest in basic math and I'd like to gently encourage that. But if dot math is a bad way to teach math, I don't want to get that in her head.  How else were people taught adding and subtracting numbers?  Pure memorization?

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Dot Math is NOT  a bad way to teach math !!!!  It is the very best way to teach math.  Many people think Touch math and Dot Math are the same thing but they are not the same thing.  They are completely different.  Dot Math can help you recover from the damage done by touch math.   The people here are all talking about touch math and how it hurt them and their ability to do math.   If you need help to recover from this damage you need to go to the Dot Math web site and learn how to break the dots away from the number symbol.   It will explain how every number is a calculator so you can learn the fact family combinations for each number.  This will help you speed up your math calculations and understand numbers.

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