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"The TOC Navigator"--the newsletter of The Objectivist Center The Math Wars, Conceptual Thinking, and Traditional Algorithms By David S.
The Math Wars, Conceptual Thinking, and Traditional Algorithms | EducationNews.org
The traditional approach (or algorithm) for large number division is the most abstract and difficult approach to division. Yet many adults think it is the approach. Take a simple problem like 7,248 divided by 3 and try to explain the traditional method: three goes into seven twice, write down the two over the seven, multiply two times three and write the answer, six, under the seven, then subtract six from seven.
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