So I've been reading up on some of the common core math strategies that people are complaining about here in the US only to find that it's basically the same stuff I've been doing my entire life because my neurotype simply will not allow for rote memorization of stuff I'm not interested in.

I so wish my need to understand had been taken seriously all those years ago, instead of my mental math techniques becoming a quiet way for me to hide my inability to remember my multiplication tables, because like, now as an adult I'm re-discovering how neat and useful algebra is but hitting roadblocks because of things like forgetting where to put the decimal place when doing the old-school division algorithm. #math #education