My sister, an educator in her own right, has mentioned that my niece is getting in trouble for using the mathematics that she's taught her at home. Which strikes me as close-minded on the part of the educator. On the other hand, as it has been explained to me, the method that the frustrated parent is commenting on in the original link is not the only one that the Core Curriculum suggests, and it actually recommends using the old "new math" version of subtraction, if that works better for students. Which seems indicative to me not of a failing in the Core Curriculum methods, but rather in the instruction in those methods to the teachers.
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