Mental Math Tricks You Need To Know - Daily Blog 015
The ability to recall the answers to math equations is touted as a spark of genius and a primary goal for many elementary school children. Memorizing numbers, carrying remainders, and long handing "all-the-things" is the norm but this is not the optimal nor the most efficient way to learn math.
Instead of learning the answers or long and convoluted procedures we need to teach both children and adults how to calculate. That there is not only one way to arrive at the correct answer.
It's this relationship with numbers that many miss, that I missed growing up. It's all because I stumbled across Scott Flansburg, that I am not trying to avoid basic arithmetic for the first time in my life.
I used to say "why should I do math when I can make the computer do it?"
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