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Subtraction
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How do kids learn to subtract nowadays. Say take 600 - 426 = ?
When I was at school you added 10 to the top and one to the bottom (I still do today) but my granddaughter is having none of it. But cant remember how she was taught to do it. Just started senior school. Thanks.
When I was at school you added 10 to the top and one to the bottom (I still do today) but my granddaughter is having none of it. But cant remember how she was taught to do it. Just started senior school. Thanks.
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actually Murdo
there were a variety of ways
in the good old days of the British raj the boys and gurlz in India
would do the borrow 10-6 equals four
and then the pay back was below the calculation
so you then went ten minus two is eight- SUBTRACT the carry is seven
six minus four is two subtract the carry is one .....one-seven-four
how do I know ?
at age eight sister marie-christine went on holiday and sister Veronica took our class ( fundamental arithmetic but sister V was no fun at all ) and in around ten minutes destroyed like forever our ability to subtract.
Took the rest of term to get over that one
and us kidz ? made us very wary of 'new' teachers 'just coming in for this lesson'
sister veronica had been brought up in india
my mother also british rag said later - yeah we did it like that youre right
even in the fifties changing primary schools was chaos
there were a variety of ways
in the good old days of the British raj the boys and gurlz in India
would do the borrow 10-6 equals four
and then the pay back was below the calculation
so you then went ten minus two is eight- SUBTRACT the carry is seven
six minus four is two subtract the carry is one .....one-seven-four
how do I know ?
at age eight sister marie-christine went on holiday and sister Veronica took our class ( fundamental arithmetic but sister V was no fun at all ) and in around ten minutes destroyed like forever our ability to subtract.
Took the rest of term to get over that one
and us kidz ? made us very wary of 'new' teachers 'just coming in for this lesson'
sister veronica had been brought up in india
my mother also british rag said later - yeah we did it like that youre right
even in the fifties changing primary schools was chaos