>This feels like the literary version of the "what in tarnation would you ever need this new-fangled multiplication for" critiques of common core math. Don't e

>This feels like the literary version of the "what in tarnation would you ever need this new-fangled multiplication for" critiques of common core math. Don't even get me started on the way mathematics is taught at most schools. For one thing, it isn't. If English were taught the same way, the lessons would consist only of spelling, grammar and punctuation.