Counterpoint: I was bought up before new math and completely bewildered by maths at school. As far as I could tell it was just a set of magical and arbitrary op

Counterpoint: I was bought up before new math and completely bewildered by maths at school. As far as I could tell it was just a set of magical and arbitrary operations that I had to learn by heart, with no inkling as to what was going on. There was nothing there I could understand no framework my brain could hang things on and I completely failed. New math sounds like it would have been idea for me.