They are trying to avoid “borrowing”.
The concept of borrowing confuses some kids.
But it actually makes things more difficult if they don’t tackle these concepts head-on.
It is worse than that. I teach 5th grade Math. They don’t want us to call it “borrowing” any more. The correct term now is “regrouping.” I actually had a negative comment on an evaluation once because I said “borrow” instead of “regroup.” As far as how I actually teach how to solve the referenced problem, I only teach the so called “long subtraction” method.
Step 2 is just “borrowing” in disguise, but the justifications are very confusing - to me at least! “Subtract the 6 tens that are there.” ... where? ... Oh, in the minuend. So then they subract 6 tens also from the subtrahend, then subtract the “remaining” 3 tens from the reduced minuend of 308, but how do you do that? There are no tens left! I guess it’s supposed to be easy to subtract 3 tens from 30 tens, but this is a shift in terminology, and a deeply buried and unexplained version of “borrowing”.
They're libtards. Of course they want to avoid borrowing. Borrowing implies that something must be repaid. They want free stuff. So until they can come up with an entitlement theory for mathematics, they'll just skip the concept of borrowing and teach how to take ... in three subtle phases.
Yup! They only truly understand borrowing later in life, like for college.
[ They are trying to avoid “borrowing”.
The concept of borrowing confuses some kids.
But it actually makes things more difficult if they don’t tackle these concepts head-on. ]
If they don’t teach the kids the concept of “borrowing” they will apply for credit cards as adults with no idea of the consequence and they will become a 2nd class “debt slave” citizen...
Seriously, it is like the government and some big corporations want to raise a nation of farm-able cattle and not free thinking intelligent FREE people.