This is encouraged in 'new math'! Kids are explicitly taught and validated in using these compensation strategies instead of feeling like they are doing something wrong.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Well that would have helped me back in the 2000's when i was told i worked out maths problems differently to everyone else with this sort of method even though i got the same answers. One teacher had me show my working out for a bunch of problems to understand how i was doing it and it made me internally feel bad at maths because i did it 'wrong'.