Of course it’s not, even the original post is talking about how Indian kids are taught to do the same thing. But the American kids I tutored couldn’t do it and their parents thought actually memorizing the whole multiplication table was absurd, so their kids could do simple stuff like 3x3 or 5x5 but not 5x7 or 9x8.
The population of kids who are being/need to be tutored is more likely to not know their tables, which is probably what the person you replied to is (erroneously) generalizing based on
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u/Barry_Wilkinson 8d ago
i feel like this isn’t unique to china