[elpadre]

I taught high school math back in the 50’s-60’s and really enjoyed it. We taught it the old fashioned way - memorizing tables and formulas - taught how they were formulated, then memorize - lots of rote - worked many problems - homework every night - weekly test each Friday on material covered during the week.

After I moved on to other employment the math educators changed the way, even the math vocabulary, every few years. I doubt seriously that I could teach math in today's schools.

[jpsb]

" We taught it the old fashioned way?

That method has worked well for 100's of years. Why anyone would change how math is taught is beyond me. Teaching New Math really pissed me off, "set theory" to grade schoolers? Really? Fools. Just pound arithmetic into their little mushy heads first. Once they can do long division competently then we can move past arithmetic. Not before.