In Perspective — Evolution of teaching math

[knitter4democracy]

11. People who pass that thing around haven't been in a math classroom in years.

What's required these days is massive, and not only would it not be spelled out like that, but it would throw in a few other random facts, difficult vocab words, and would be expected to be solved in the most difficult way.

It's not that our kids aren't learning math, just that we're expected not to really hammer home the basics that the calculators can do. They're expected to use their calculators for the basics up through algebra but still understand what's going on, and most students just don't. I wish we would just get rid of those darn things and teach them math right, but Chicago Method has taken over.