>I'm 100% confused as to how "focus on getting the 'right' answer" In my opinion, there is a problem here, but it's being expressed wrong. The complaint should

>I'm 100% confused as to how "focus on getting the 'right' answer" In my opinion, there is a problem here, but it's being expressed wrong. The complaint should be: "focus on getting the right 'answer'", with 'answer' called out, i.e., that writing a number or expression that satisfies the problem setup is the primary goal. But this tends to teach students to take shortcuts when we need to teach fluency in reading and writing mathematical notation, particularly, as I mentioned, basic notation: fractions, parentheses, variables and exponents. Is this "racist"? Not per se, but it happens within a system where the higher-class students go to schools that have highly qualified teachers and innovative methods (e.g. IB) while the unnecessariat are consigned to schools which have only "proven their worth" through standardized test scores and which teach students to pass the same; what is unfair is that this substandard understanding is mostly taught to the already-disadvantaged. But the whole site is written like this: the recommendations of the experts have been filtered through seven proxies of PR teams, not all of whom seem to be trying to offer comprehensible and reassuring explanations.