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[quote=Anonymous]There have been several “new math” curricula over the past 50 years. My “new math” from the 1970s was different from the “new math” of the 1980s, and so on. What actually works for math is to teach 1 method which always works, and then have lots of repetition so that method is memorized. Not a popular answer, but its what the data show. Go see the circa 1990 CBS 60-Minutes episode on Saxon Math - and then cry about all the kids who did not learn math because of various ineffective math curricula. Ed School faculty cannot get tenure for saying any existing curriculum/approach works well. To get published and thus get tenure, they always need to “invent” a different approach and say it is better than whichever approach is in use at that time. It is sad really, and it is in large measure also how reading instruction became such a mess (even though lots of data for many decades has said Phonics is what works for all kids).[/quote]
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