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Thanks!  It just seems like this is a really inefficient way of communicating with parents.  Are we really going to have to translate every concept into normal person language?  There's a fortune to be made if someone creates textbooks that follow the 2.0 curriculum.  I'd buy one in a heartbeat.  
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PP here. Also, do your teachers send home monthly newsletters? That's another good source of information.

I haven't looked lately, but I think that "composing/decomposing" is really the only major renaming of elementary-school math terms. It was "borrowing/carrying" when I was in elementary school, and I really think that "composing/decomposing" is an improvement.[/quote]

Wait, what you just said was composing/decomposing isn't the same as "borrowing/carrying", though.  
OMG, I am going to go nuts without a textbook.  [/quote]

It really is the same as borrowing/carrying, except that I learned borrowing and carrying as "first you do this, then you do that", and if you'd asked elementary-school me to explain how come I could do this and that, I would have been completely unable to answer the question. The reason you're allowed to "carry the one" when you do 15 + 16 is because you're composing the eleven ones you get from 5 + 6 into one ten and one one. Does that make sense?[/quote]

Ok, I get that.  I'm just wondering why there isn't some resource that we can have that tells us things like that.  It's entirely on us to figure it out.  And hope that whatever resource we dig up is actually right.[/quote]

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