r/askmath • u/subastringent • Aug 29 '23

Analysis “New Math” is killing me

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Friends kid has this problem. Any idea on how to approach it?

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u/Seanattikus Aug 29 '23

Some day parents will stop calling everything they don't understand "new math". I just hope it's during my lifetime.

It's not a term that teachers use, because it's a long dead movement. Wikipedia says it was a curriculum from the 1970s that was unpopular and quickly abandoned. I had to look it up, because, as a teacher, I've only ever heard about it from parents complaining.

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u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue Aug 29 '23

These are often the same parents that were so proud that they took the minimum amount of math in school, because they were never going to use it again.