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Old 12-05-2013, 09:33 PM
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Originally Posted by pj67coll View Post
89 + 16 = and then by some weird rigamarole of separating the tens and ones you add them separately in columns beneath the problem and then stick em all together. So you add 80 and 10 and get 90. And you add 9 and 6 and get 15 and then you add 90 to 16 and you get 106. - Peter.
89+16=105 so I think you ask for your money back.

But, I know what you are trying to say.

I think they should teach the distinction between math and arithmetic.
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