Because math usually confuses me.
You've all seen the picture.
I can't find the original source so can't link to it. If anyone knows where it started, I'd love to link back and provide all sort of traffic to the owner.
Moving onward...I found myself reluctantly agreeing...this new way of math seemed ridiculous.
Then, I accidentally did it.
When I was trying to buy eight somethings that cost $45 each, I wanted to smack my head against the wall because I'd forgotten my calculator. While I realize this is a simple math problem for some of you, please see the "math confuses me" notation in the above paragraph. In addition, my brain is currently filled with gods and goddesses, witches and wizardry. Oh. And Benedict Cumberbatch. Honestly, math just isn't happening.
Then I realized, I may actually know how to solve this math problem and the mental acrobats required of me is awfully similar to "new math" and I'm anything but "new".
In conclusion, if anyone is still upset and up in arms over the this newfangled version of math, consider this...an admittedly non-math person uses the same formula in her head in dire situations. In other words, we're all doing it already. Why not teach it?
3 comments:
Exactly!
I've been doing this since at least 3rd grade. I recall explaining to my mom and 3rd grade teacher how I had arrived at the answer to a subtraction problem, and that they laughed--that's why I remember it, because I didn't understand why it was funny. :)
Yep. That is my math. Who can do borrowing and double digit multiply in their head except my husband?
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