Part of the struggle, at least in the US, is you have parents trying to help their kids with math being taught in ways they never learned. My wife literally ca

Part of the struggle, at least in the US, is you have parents trying to help their kids with math being taught in ways they never learned. My wife literally cannot help our 7 year old with her math because we were raised in a school system that taught rote memorization. I was too, but I suck at memorization and have had to rely on fundamental understanding in order to survive in math. So luckily I can help with things. And parent involvement helps a ton. When our kid got 50% on the practice test I spent a few hours going over the material she didn't understand. She ended up getting 100% on the real test.