Maths. Hate maths? Good at maths? Can't make top nor tail of maths?

When I was at school (yep, I went to school!) we had a nutty maths teacher who just lived for maths. The thing is, some of the things he taught I've never forgotton so I wonder what he would have made of the Common Core methods?

I was browsing the BBC website and saw this report:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-35788369

Which led on to this video :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVTzQlqbp0

Now then, who the heck thought of doing things that way? How on earth can you visualise doing that mentally?

I think anyone contemplating changing anything should only promote changes which are simpler not more complicated. I wonder how many kids minds just went blank when they were trying to get to grips with that lot?

Next thing is they'll be trying to get kids to understand the significance of the numbers on a roulette wheel adding up to 666.