Saturday, April 21, 2007

Math Operations - There's Only One

In my exploration of the Base Ten System under the Building a System of Tens program, I have been developing a theory that there are not four Operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division). There is actually just one.

The relationship between these four processes (multiplication is repeated addition, etc.) is so strong that I purport that there is only "operation" with four strategies for operating. I intend to explore this further but would enjoy shared thoughts on the matter.

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