It does not end with the history books. Take a look what math is being taught in most states now.
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI
My second grader’s school district has adopted the “Everyday Mathematics” program shown in this video. It is as bad as the lady is saying, even at the second grade level. My wife with a Bachelors degree and good grades, has a very difficult time helping him with the homework, because quite frankly this crap is hard to understand.
I do not like the “Everyday Math” at all.
My son is now struggling in math with this crap when he had been excelling.
Fabulous video. No wonder some of my grandchildren are struggling with math. My son (an engineer and good at math) just removed his (very smart) son from Advanced Placement Math in HS because he was about to fail the course. The school (Overland Park, KS) fought my son on it — didn’t want to put my grandson in regular math, although he clearly wasn’t going to pass AP math. My son insisted because to have a failure on my grandson’s record would prevent him from receiving any college sports scholarship. My grandson is an accomplished baseball player, but not so good at AP math. Now I see why.
I’ve always thought that if (perish the thought) anything happened to any of my children that I could raise the grandchildren. Well, this video proves to me that I certainly couldn’t help them with their homework.
I suppose that my husband calculates like this in his head, but he is also an engineer and was on the “Math Team” in HS. This method of teaching is beyond us mere mortals.