“Spending any classroom time on it is comparable to teaching how to use an abacus...”
We learned math in the first grade with an abacus. Learned 1’s, 10’s 100’s, etc. Now, you SOBs have students counting on their fingers—and they can’t get past ten. So FU.
We were slapped on our hands by our teachers if we used our fingers to count.
My daughter though had a teacher in the third or fourth grade that taught the students math with a specific method of using the fingers. It was actually quite neat and fast