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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the only benefit is that the parents are more comfortable with it. [/quote]

+1. My kid is getting so much more out of math class than I ever did. It's just frustrating that I'm largely unable to help with her homework. When she has a question, I mostly have her explain the lesson to me until she reaches the answer on her own. [/quote]

That's the right way to help your DC.

But to address teaching old math and new math, they teach both, as long as there is time, and the teacher or student isn't absent that day (my DS was out sick the day his teacher taught long division so he didn't learn it and eventually figured it out himself in 6th grade).  But since they teach lots of inefficient ways to solve problems along with the old efficient way, kids don't realize that they should use the efficient way.  Instead they pick whichever way to solve the problem that they like the best.  And then they cannot add, subtract, multiply or divide efficiently.[/quote]

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