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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh wow, on paper I do old math, but I’ve always done the new style in my head. That’s really neat! I think whichever way works best with your learning/processing style is great. Happy like to hear that they’re teaching both.[/quote] Same. Old math on paper is convenient when I don't feel like thinking or am tired and want to make sure I get it right, but the vast majority of time I do math in my head using approaches that are more similar to new math techniques (but were never explicitly taught in my day that I recall, just intuitively understood that for example it's easier to mentally break 47x82 into three quick/easy problems of 40x80, 7x80, 47x2, and add the result... or just do 50x80 if I need an approximate value)[/quote]
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