Borrowing

[omly]

Do you all remember borrowing? You know, it is that thing where when you are subtracting 2 numbers and you sometimes need to "borrow" from the tens place for example if you don't have enough in the ones place. Well apparently they have re-dubbed this "regrouping". Sounds all fancy like doesn't it? What was wrong with borrowing?

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[mytheria.livejournal.com]

probably some theorist declared that borrowing will confuse kids because they think they have to return it to the next column somehow. Or some aburd over processed reason like that. And i remember when the term borrowing was being berated by my bio-father as being 'new math'.