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In other words that fire fighter isn't as good at math as he thinks he is although he's applying the short version in different ways to expand his knowledge. More hands on. But there is a reason why it's done that way and what he is doing too. That fire fighter probably wouldn't be able to do all that if he wasn't taught to first think.

Unfortunately too many people will take that the wrong way to trash common core and firefighters. Because they don't know how to think. He's basically applying common core to the short version and then doing other things at the same time. It's more an adverstisement for common core. He isn't trashing it. He's applying it.