I love homeschool. I predict that when my 7 year old is 25 she will be able to add the phrase "classic education" to her resume and have it mean something. Think of it this way who wants a doctor that takes a minute to add 9+6 cutting them open?

Impressive, reading that made me feel uncomfortable. What's with treating the 9 like it's some red headed step child?

Last year the state began sending our high school math teachers the lessons they were instructed to teach. 2 math teachers left last year, and so would I if treated like that.

If the college board starts AP testing the new math it's over. We'll need to import all future engineers.

Have fun!

From the article:

"Earlier this month, Canada’s National Post reported that a group of neuroscientists has issued a study finding that rote memorization of discrete math facts plays a critical role in mathematical development in young children.

"In short, the study found, memorizing multiplication tables and answers to basic arithmetic problems is cognitively vital because, without such memorization, children will have a much harder time later on with complex math problems."

I've been saying this for years. I watched my son and his classmates learn math in ways that discarded "rote memorization," and those kids were doing addition and multiplication on their fingers in 4th and 5th grade. I, and I'm sure many other Galt's Gulchers, had the multiplication tables memorized by heart in 1st grade. It was just like grammar; not so much fun to learn, but an essential building block. Now we have a society that can't write and lacks basic numeracy, and the education establishment pushes for more gobbledygook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mKIuZ4t...

THE FUTURE youth? That's what we're looking at with kommon kore.

The "Let's confuse them until they give up and hate themselves and revert to sucking their thumbs method".. Nice.

This is the way Mathnasium has been teaching it for years. It works great if its taught right.