The Common Core State Standards teach students the algorithm for multi-digit addition and subtraction in 4th grade. But some experts say it should be taught sooner.

Consider the standard algorithm for multidigit addition and subtraction, which makes its appearance in Grade 4 of the Common Core math standards.

Unfortunately, the Common Core math standards delay the teaching of standard algorithms for addition and subtraction, as well as other key operations. The standard algorithm for multi-digit addition ...

The present paper describes the success, the methods (mental, informal written, standard algorithm) and the strategies of informal written arithmetic to be observed when 300 elementary students worked ...