{"id":41386,"date":"2014-03-11T11:40:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/hooray-for-newer-math.html"},"modified":"2014-03-11T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:40:04","slug":"hooray-for-newer-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/11\/hooray-for-newer-math.html","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for New(er) Math!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Huh. Guess I missed the memo that there was some Huge Controversy over Subtraction making the rounds.<\/p>\n

All I can say is:<\/p>\n

1. My daughter got taught math in the past several years in some strange, bizarre ways that (a) allowed her to graduate to "normal" computation and (b) don't seem to have rendered her an idiot.<\/p>\n

2. I was entering 3rd Grade in the 60s right when our school traded in the old clay tablets<\/del> math books that taught "old math" (pages and pages of rote computation) in favor of "New Math" books (this was the first coming of New Math). \u00a0I seem to have survived as well (and there were elements of New Math I really enjoyed).<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Tom Lehrer – New Math (Animated)<\/a><\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Les Jenkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I only learned the "old" way. The new way makes perfect sense to me. Not sure what folks are complaining about.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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About That \u2018Common Core\u2019 Math Problem Making the Rounds on Facebook\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huh. Guess I missed the memo that there was some Huge Controversy over Subtraction making the rounds. All I can say is: 1. My daughter got taught math in the past several years in some strange, bizarre ways that (a) allowed her to graduate to "normal" computation and (b) don't seem to have rendered her … Continue reading “Hooray for New(er) Math!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127999,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/14\/should-math-be-taught-in-schools.html","url_meta":{"origin":41386,"position":0},"title":"Should Math be taught in schools?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Sep-15 6:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This started floating around the Internet again this weekend, though it's actually from a few years back (and is a parody of the much less amusing \"Should Evolution should be taught in school\" question asked of the actual Miss USA 2011 contestants, https:\/\/youtu.be\/UkBmhM0R2A0).+Kay Hill, maybe you should talk with your\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":128129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/math-methodology-mediocrity-and-common-core-gasp.html","url_meta":{"origin":41386,"position":1},"title":"Math, Methodology, Mediocrity … and Common Core (gasp!)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Sep-15 7:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"I entered elementary school just as the New Math (1960s style -- the one Tom Lehrer sang about [https:\/\/youtu.be\/UIKGV2cTgqA]) was coming in. 2nd Grade? 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