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Denise Gaskins
Personal blog · denisegaskins.commathculture
Denise Gaskins's personal blog at denisegaskins.com covers math and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on teaching multiplication, including a 2008 reply to Devlin's essay arguing that multiplication is not repeated addition. One commenter links it as a teacher's clarification of that argument.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-addition/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-10-13
What Hacker News says?
Clickable: - https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_09_07.htm... - https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_06_08.htm... - https://denisegaskins.com/2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-add... (Sorry, it just bothers me when people don't use clickable links here.)
Comment linking /2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-addition/
on “What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (2008)”Submitted What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (2008) as a story · 152 points
HN discussionI have to confess I wasn't clear on what he was trying to convey without digging in a bit deeper. This blog post from a teacher in response to his post clarified things: https://denisegaskins.com/2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-add...
Comment linking /2008/07/01/if-it-aint-repeated-addition/
on “Multiplication: It Ain't No Repeated Addition [2008]”