<p>I will say that when I grew up we got into “new math”…as if math needed changing in the few thousand years it had been in existence. That was like 4th grade. I can only say that my dad saved me at that point. He taught me math almost through HS up until Calculus when I hit another “old school” teacher. My dad was straightforward–calculations, write your work down, get the answer.
I had some great other math teachers along the way but they tended to ignore texts and just teach what they knew we needed to know.</p>