Now, if you would like to examine the significance of this new math, check out this post on Denialism at TUIBG
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New Math
New-hoo-hoo Math
It won't do you a bit of good to review math
It's so simple
So very simple
That only a child can do it.
Tomorrow, we're going to learn fractions.
This does hit upon a serious issue: A lot of people learn algorithms for division and multiplication and don't understand what they are doing at all.