Is EDM good for kids who are good at math?

[Anonymous]

The main complaints seem to be about failure to gain computational fluency and failure to master skills as a result of the spiraling. But what if computational fluency comes naturally?

[Anonymous]

I can't understand what is so wrong with the traditional approach, for any child, gifted or not. Why do we use terms like "drill and kill"?
I remember a sense of achievement and pride when I memorized my multiplication tables. My mother had me work on it all summer and I got it. It did not kill me and I did not hate math as a result of that. What I hated was new math that even the teachers did not themselves get.
FWIW, I was a mathematician in my first career. I teach my kids the traditional approach at home. They do EDM at school. I told their teachers that I will not help them with that homework, and my kids rarely complete it. EDM is a joke. Univ. of Chicago knows it, they are just making too much money to give it up.