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Being able to recognize that 11 * 15 = 10*15 + 15 may be related to success in higher level math courses like linear algebra and calculus.



I never learnt my times tables when I was little I just learnt how to do the multiplications in my head on the fly.

Years later when I worked in a shop I used to cost complex print jobs in my head and co-workers though it was magic.

The way maths is taught in the UK is largely how and very rarely why.




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