"I have no comprehension of your statement."
...you're not the first.
No, I was somewhat teasing. What I was getting at, is that there is a huge effort to dumb-down math. To the point of telling kids that 2+2=7 is ok, if that's what they feel - since telling them otherwise could hurt their feelings. This has been called Fuzzy Math and New, New Math.
There was another thread last night where we got on the subject of math. Here it is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1315661/posts
You'll see that the libs are managing to gum up math also.
But here's the mother of web sites on the subject:
http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com
...it goes on and on - books on the subject. It is really bad out there. And then....when these poor kids get to college - everything changes. In college all of this garbage is thrown out, and the kids are expected to understand real math, or they flunk out.
Talk about a roller coaster for these poor kids.