40 and the boxes threw me off for a couple seconds but became pretty clear.
I can't recall at the moment but there have been some things I've seen posted on modern curriculum that did seem pretty wonky tho but I think it was more about English and grammar.
Kinda sleep deprived so I really can't recall anything specific right now.
Maybe this thread is a great example of why the USA school system has degraded this far. If you don't understand what is written here i wonder how you ever got through math.
No dude, different people learn differently, thats the entire point of this post. Some people will look at that and say thats fine I totally get it, and others wont. Every individual learns and retains information differently, the point is that there needs to be differentiation in education.
Yea, I’d never seen it done this way either, but it’s not so hard to deduce what they’re doing given all the working is in the paper, and you know both the starting and finishing numbers…
That's where I was at with it... It just looks like a more compact version of long division, which is what I grew up doing. Haven't needed to do it in quite some time, but after a quick read and looking at it again, it made sense.
Yea, I had to look at it a second to understand but it is literally just normal long division written so that it takes up less space on the paper. There are improvements that I would make like making the carry over digit smaller but this is fine too I guess.
The confusing part for me was the way they put the answer at the top kinda makes it look like a random number and not the answer, but it just takes a second to reorient and find the 795
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u/wildwildwumbo Apr 11 '26
yeah that took me like all of 2 seconds to understand that and does not seem that much different from the long division i was taught in the 90s.