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A comment on What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? (2008). Parent comment

Re:What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? ... by prionassembly on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:29AM (#26330636)
Using a calculator.

Not a troll: the ability to compute products and the idea that (horizontal length) times (vertical length) = (area) are different things.

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Re:What’s Wrong with “Multiplication Is Repeated Addition”? ... by magicalhippo on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:33AM (#26330692)
So teaching multiplication ends up as "whatever the calculator does when I press this button"?
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