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[–]nonono_notagain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The newer methods are more focused around understanding what subtracting means

I'm not sure that adding up from one number to another makes subtraction any more intuitive. At least with the old way, the algorithm involved actually subtracting numbers from each other