I thought I had found them all, but NO.
Subtraction. Read this
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Kindergarten
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
• Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
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What has subtraction got to do with taking apart ???
(The examples are all of the form 9 = 3 + 6 and so on).
Also there is NO mention at all of subtraction as a way of finding the difference between two numbers, or of finding the larger of two numbers (anywhere).
While I am in critical mode I offer two more, less awful, horrors from Grade 1:
“To add 2 + 6 + 4,…” and “For example, subtract 10 – 8″.
The poor symbols are clearly in great pain at this point. Just read aloud exactly what is written…..
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