(01-16-2015, 08:30 PM)Lilithium Wrote: I've gotten into this with my aunt, who teaches second grade in a small town outside of Bozeman, Montana. She thinks it's amazing, yet my cousin (a fifth grade math teacher in a town a few hours away) thinks it's insanity. Her kids are having such a hard time with it even though she's learned how to teach them.
Which is where Naunet's comment about having alternate strategies comes in. We both know that different people can have wildly different ways of learning. What works great for some people is awful for others.