What Was Wrong With The Old Way?

I don’t have children in school anymore, but I have grandchildren in school. Occasionally I help them with their homework. I love math. I was on my high school math team (how nerdy is that?). But what is being done to students today in the name of math is horrible.

From a friend on Facebook:

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I agree. What was wrong with the old way?