Part of the problem with this is that I feel elementary school teachers often lack understanding of why the math works. I remember hearing horror stories of peo

Part of the problem with this is that I feel elementary school teachers often lack understanding of why the math works. I remember hearing horror stories of people taking the Praxis and all the elementary teachers freaking out about the math -- one even said she had failed that section three times! It doesn't bode well that these are the people teaching our kids how basic math works. And it does show when they get to secondary schools.