On the off chance there's a person who hasn't heard Tom Lehrer's explanation of the New Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vetg7vWitTU https://www.youtube.c

On the off chance there's a person who hasn't heard Tom Lehrer's explanation of the New Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vetg7vWitTU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vetg7vWitTU (In case you don't know Lehrer, he did PhD studies in math at Harvard, and taught at Harvard and MIT, often performing his songs during his lectures (or composing songs FOR his lectures.))