Fair point that memorizing an algorithm doesn't necessarily advance the student's intuition for how numbers work, but keep in mind that you're replying on a subthread about how learning a general algorithm is an improvement over memorizing multiplication tables.
Ideally, we teach children the intuition for mathematics. Just memorizing arithmetic algorithms isn't ideal, but it's surely better than memorizing finite arithmetic tables.
Ideally, we teach children the intuition for mathematics. Just memorizing arithmetic algorithms isn't ideal, but it's surely better than memorizing finite arithmetic tables.