[Always Right]

In a joint statement, five leaders of the Mathematical Association opposed the change. "Don't let us go back to the bad old days with books full of pages of vertical sums when only a minute percentage of pupils understood what they were doing and only a third could carry out calculations,"

That is a telling statement. These 'educators' perspective is from that of an idiot who could not perform simple arithmetic. 'Only a minute percentage' was more like 90%, they were just in the 10% who could not do it.

[bubman]

Now you know why Liberalism has a steady flow of new adherents.

"Mrs Turno, of west London, said: "The teachers say it is the new way and if the answer is wrong it doesn't matter as long as she is using the right method. It's quite bizarre."

Telling isn't it? The annointed ones test their absurd theories on the rest of us and when you raise an entire generation of idiots they'll blame everything and everybody (except themselves)

[underbyte]

My daughters 4 grade math book was a total waste, They used a convoluted version of the grid and added in 5 different ways of "ESTIMATING" in case they didn't understand any particular method.

Problem was tests covered the 5 different ways of estimating.

I bought a homeschooling book and taught her Division in in a couple of hours while the class struggled for a couple of months on it.

Educaters these days strive for stupidity