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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by gnaritas on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @02:58PM (#14746957)
I think you misunderstand, "New Math"[1] was a thing from the 60's, he clearly took it as an adjective talking about common core, the current "new math", but not the same as the "New Math" bitwize was saying had been tried and was a failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

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Re:Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learni... by kaitai on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @10:08PM (#14749669)
I know New Math from the 1960s; the sibling comment to my post indicates that ghettoCoder is talking about Common Core today and I disagree with his characterization of Common Core. New Math as practiced in the 1960s is a fascinating and very different failure case, although it probably had similar problems in implementation (poor teacher training and shoddy repackaged curricula).
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