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For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (22 children)

Common core made an effort to teach kids to think about numbers this way and people flipped the fuck out because that wasn't how they were taught. Still mad about that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

There's ~~people~~aliens who would add 9+7 instead of 10+6 or 8+8 in their heads?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I do, because 9 plus anything is just a 1 in front of the other digit minus 1.

Weirdly enough, I just thought about using the methods here for the first time in my life earlier today. Weird.

[–] Zannsolo 1 points 1 month ago

That's basically what I do

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