There was a video explaining how 32-12 would be solved with Common Core math. The next generation of kids are going to be unable to function outside school if that is the only method they are taught.
When a program whose stated goals could have been accomplished far cheaper and easier and without a particular consequence,
you can assume that the consequence IS the goal.
The real problem is that it isn’t the only way that they’re taught. It’s just one of any number of ways they’re taught, which ensures that they won’t understand any of them.
Unnecessary complications and deliberate confusion abound. Equations are no longer equations; they’re now “number sentences”. Kids no longer “solve for x” or “express x in terms of. ..”; they now “make x the subject of the number sentence”. Subjects and sentences belong in English class, not math class.
< rant over >