I tutor Middle School math — pre-algebra, algebra, 6th grade math. I ALWAYS teach the kids the old-fashioned way — “It has to make sense. It is binary, right or wrong.” These are liberating concepts. The parents hate the ‘new’ math, no one can help their kids. AND it is absolutely imperative that our kids learn how to do math.
One could think there was a conspiracy behind it.
This is just one more way in which the Gramscian Marxists running our government schools can drive a wedge between parents and children.
It is one more means to make the parents look foolish and old fashioned and one more way to make the children more dependent on the state rather than on their parents and family.