This itself explains the worship of the Standard Algorithm, and why people see a New World Order conspiracy behind every attempt to reform math education.
Not helping matters is the fact that most of the reformers are themselves ignorant chuckleheads who identify the heuristics that skilled arithmeticians use and codify them as a NEW set of rules to be memorized...
Not helping matters is the fact that most of the reformers are themselves ignorant chuckleheads who identify the heuristics that skilled arithmeticians use and codify them as a NEW set of rules to be memorized...