I'm a parent and I've overall been very happy. In math it's very simple for a kid to get hung-up on one simple thing and then they have this hole and cause thin

I'm a parent and I've overall been very happy. In math it's very simple for a kid to get hung-up on one simple thing and then they have this hole and cause things build on previous knowledge later things are now trouble as well. For example one of my children could not factor in the way I was taught with the trees, but another way was presented and it totally clicked for her. For one of my sons he could not do long division in the manner I was taught, but another method worked for him instantly. He showed me and I even liked it, cause I remembered how hung-up I had been about getting the correct digit at each step myself. I also like how it seems to have this component about reasoning. To many people math is arithmetic, but it really is not that. The problem is that there are kids where requirements were different. So for example now a third grader is supposed to have memorized multiplication table, but there were schools that never did that before. Or a sixth grader is now already supposed to have done some geometry, but the school only did it in 8th grade or HS before. There is no route to fill in the gaps during this transition in many schools it seems.