They want to somehow get rid of any rote memorization. It is stupid as all it does is make math a lot more complicated. They, common core, are all about the “process” but not as worried about the outcome.
Exactly...nail on head...
I have a daughter who was born with Turners Syndrome, a genetic chromosome disorder...
Her brain has an extremely hard time processes concepts like time, space...math is a conceptual process...
When she was school age she simply didn't understand why 2 + 2 = 4...her brain is not wired to understand that...
She had a hard time understanding what "next week" or "tomorrow" meant...
To help her in school I spent hours upon hours making her learn rote mathematics...like we used to do...made her take music lessons to help her process these type of concepts...
Your point about "process" is an important one as students learn that process is more important than outcome, it trains their mind to be indoctrinated to accept concepts that is foreign to their upbringing...
Rote memorization is an easy way to get the outcome and then the process comes later...common core turns that upside down...