Ask me what my second or fifth grader is learning in math right now. I can’t answer you because it’s Tuesday, and their school uses Everyday Math.

On Doug Noon's Borderlands blog, high school teacher Karl Fisch defends the use of conceptually-oriented math programs like Everyday Math in elementary schools.

The use of “new math” is nothing more than the politically correct practice of dumbing-down the curriculum, mostly to provide the illusion of success to parents and to make schools look good.