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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools have been chasing fad curricula since textbooks existed. My Aunt has been in education for 60 years and can list each decade's fad.[/quote]

OP. This is totally believable. I was a victim of the "new math" of my era, which foisted an untested "new" approach that had no sound pedagogical basis on my generation of kids. [/quote]

OP, how old are you and how old is your child? “New Math” was a trend in the 60s. Someone who experienced New Math is more likely to be a grandparent than a parent to an elementary school child. 
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Different flavors of "new math" have appeared every decade for many years. There were 1990s flavored "new math", new millenium "new math", and more recently the math workshop flavor of "new math". None of them worked, btw.

As a non-Catholic seriously considering a Carholic ES, I find their use of out-of-style-for-decades traditional math refreshing. They teach one way to solve each kind of problem. They have enough school work and homework that kids actually will memorize that one method. [/quote]

Agree.  My kids had math workshop "new math" and some Singapore math.  They spent a lot of time looking at pictures of squares to learn place value.  Neither mastered long division with something called the lattice method.  I had to teach them my "traditional method".

The only reason my kids are better than me at math is that I sent them to franchise tutoring where over two school years, they refreshed on grades 5-7 math and got homework support for higher level math.[/quote]

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