This article is about French mathematics education, which is proof-heavy and intuition-light. Elementary math education in the US eschews proofs almost entirely

This article is about French mathematics education, which is proof-heavy and intuition-light. Elementary math education in the US eschews proofs almost entirely, which is a different problem. The problem is not abstraction, which is necessary to develop new concepts like fractional exponents and i, but motivating the abstraction.