That is utter madness. That “lattice method” may well work (in the sense of getting the correct product) but it completely obscures the reason for the placement of the numerals (1s, 10s, 100s etc place) and it introduces needless complication.
“That is utter madness. That “lattice method” may well work (in the sense of getting the correct product) but it completely obscures the reason for the placement of the numerals (1s, 10s, 100s etc place) and it introduces needless complication.”
“utter madness”, the British term. I never liked that term because it implies that the people doing it are idiots that have no clue regarding what they do.
While I can’t claim to be an expert on Britain, I will say that our enemies are FAR from mad. They are BRILLIANT and, I think, smarter than us. They know EXACTLY what they’re doing and continue to succeed at it, regardless of who we elect or what we want.
Once in a while we try to call them out, and we get CLOBBERED. An example here in Texas is when our state school board tries to turn the clock back a few decades with regard to math and history teaching - to get math back to where kids learned it the right way, and get history back to where it was unbiased. You’d think that the school board members came right out Nazi Germany, given the media coverage - and many, many, conservatives thought that too.