This thing called new math??

[WaywardOn3]

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA

:-o I don't think we did it like this when I was at school, base 10 yeah but base 8? It sounds so complicated

ouch no that sounds horrendous

"So very simple, so very simple. That only a child can do it". My maths geek sister once sat down with the lyrics to the song and worked it all out. But then tom lehrer was a math professor first!

DS uses this method. We're in Spain. I'm sure I wasn't taught this way - I'm 42 - but it works so who cares? I'm learning with him!