[17th Miss Regt]

You gotta wonder what idiot decided memorizing multiplication tables wasn’t the way to learn multiplication.

Those idiots are School of Education academics that think that rote memorization is bad for students. They simply do not understand how to teach.

[kjam22]

I’m a fan of deductive reasoning and applying common sense solutions to things. But not to 5x3.

[Leaning Right]

Those idiots are School of Education academics that think that rote memorization is bad for students.

That's exactly right! Any teacher will tell you that rote memorization is really the first step towards true understanding.

But the School of Education academics need to "publish or perish". So they are always generating garbage, garbage that gets latched on by "progressive" school superintendents.

The garbage doesn't work, and then the teachers get blamed.

University Schools of Education should be abolished. If you want to be, say, a math teacher, you should have to do it through the university math department.