re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts hyperventilating and freaking out over this “Common Core” method of solving an arithmetic problem.
I think this is much better prep for algebra, calculus and advanced math than the “carry & borrow” method we learned back in the day.

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For my mom (b. 1950), the Common Core way is the “old way”. That’s sorta of the way she was taught and it was useful for her when she worked as a cashier for a number of years back in the day.

The way she would make change is given the value of the transaction (e.g., $8.53) and the value of cash given (e.g., $10) she would count up the coin change to get $9.00 even and then another dollar bill to make it to $10.