I largely agree with you, but I do wonder whether there was some real benefit to lots of math drill. Someone who has practice with multi-digit multiplication and division on paper, and who understands why the techniques work, is better equipped to understand algebraic multiplication and division, and to grasp whether figures being thrown at him make sense, or could not be even approximately true.
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Date: 2018-05-10 01:01 am (UTC)