re: Common Core Math

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I feel like I get what they are trying to do here. It reminds me of my first finance professor teaching is how to calculate present value or a payment by hand before just letting us plug it into our calculators.

That being said, I think I would of hated learning basic math like this.

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It's kind of the same when I took Income Tax I in college for an accounting degree. OUr end of the year project was a complex tax return for an individual , all by paper. By that time there were software programs that did most of the work, but understanding how different forms flowed into a tax return was very important.